Rush is right - we don’t call people names. But it was an mistake - look at the numbers ...
Here’s a breakdown on ‘birth control’ issue and costs:
Birth control pills at Walmart sell for $9 a month - for three years of law school that’s $324.
After three years of birth control pills are paid for - a law student is left with $2,676 to cover costs of condoms....
A box of LifeStyles Ultra Sensitive 40ct (40 count) Condoms at Walmart runs $11.46.
The $2,676 left AFTER buying birth control pills, she ( random law student) can buy 233 boxes of condoms (the 40 count boxes) - for a total of 9320 condoms over a three year stint at law school... or 3,106 condoms per year. Or about 8 1/2 condoms PER DAY.
What word should people use to describe a female law student who uses - on average - 60 condoms a week? Free? Liberated? Or maybe something different?
I would never, ever apply the word "slut" to Sandra Fluke nor to any of the women she represents.
It used to be that a reasonably competent slut could get a couple hundred bucks for less than an hour's access to her goods and services. Ms. Fluke apparently speaks for a different category: females who not only can't find a man willing to underwrite their Ortho Tri-Cyclen -- the basic oral contraceptive, available at Wal-Mart at $24 for a 3-month supply--- but can't even get them to put up 35 cents for a rubber.
Such radically devalued young persons do not benefit at all from being called sluts. They fall far short of any reasonable definition of whoredom.
If they are Catholics, they might, however, benefit from excommunication.
That would at least remind them that they are persons created in the imago Dei, and warn them solemnly that their priceless dignity is being eroded by their own choices. It might help them to realize that care of their souls is more important than the price of their Pills.
She was not talking about condoms, she was talking about hormonal birth control. The cost of hormonal birth control does not increase with the amount of sex the user is having, so you can't draw a correlation between the stated (and clearly exaggerated) cost of contraception and the amount of sex Ms. Fluke is having. Ms. Fluke was clearly lying about the cost of birth control (or, to be more precise, was probably parrotting a number she saw somewhere else, without regard to whether that number was accurate), but she was not admitting to sleeping around. She said not a single word about her own sexual activities.
“What word should people use to describe a female law student who uses - on average - 60 condoms a week?”
If you’re nice, a slut, if you’re truthfull a whore!
I really don't care who she screws. But I don't want to pay for it and I couldn't afford to even if I was OK with it. Seems to me that sort of expense should be charged as part of her "fees." Maybe it would help if someone showed her how to generate an invoice?