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February 2nd 2010

Seen on Twitter: What's "a Slut"?

- Liz Sabatiuk

To accompany our "Slut: The Worst 4-Letter Word?" podcast, we searched "a slut" in our twitter feed to see how people are using the word. As Jessica pointed out in the poll "Do you use the word 'slut'?" urbandictionary.com has 255 definitions for it (actually, a week later as I'm writing this the number appears to have increased to 259). Based on a brief skim of the many (MANY) tweets that include the term--excluding all mention of Miley Cyrus, I might add--here is my short list, in no particular order, of what "slut" means to twitter-users.

1.25.10

Slut: The Worst 4-Letter Word?

Dating back at least as far as the 15th Century, the word “slut” has been hurled at women through the ages. But today, in the age of sexting and random hook ups, when porn stars have their own prime time reality shows, what does the word even mean? Laura Stepp talks to Leora Tanenbaum, author of Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation and various twenty-somethings about this short word with a long history and what it means to them. [11 min 33 sec]

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