(1) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(2) The fact that so little progress has been made in the specific area of female sexuality is partly because of divisions within feminism – many of the boldest voices see the Slut business as a post-modern stunt, where sexual violence is used as a stalking horse to co-opt young women into hot pants and thence into the raunch culture that oppresses them further.
(3) to a megaphone-brandishing woman with the words "moralising slut" written across her chest (a reference to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who called Madonna a moralising "slut" when she expressed support for Pussy Riot).
(4) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
(5) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(6) We’re fat and we’re sluts, but we’re also too ugly to get laid, and even though we’re both paid to talk for a living, we have nothing to say, and should shut up.
(7) A senior official called her a "moralising slut" for the former, and nine claimants brought a $10.7m lawsuit against her for the latter.
(8) Over the weekend, videos emerged showing Rodger, the son of film director, railing about his hatred of women and claiming he would "slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up, blonde slut I see".
(9) Another Twitter user, going by the handle @CoreyOC21, sent a message to Ennis-Hill which read: “Hope Ched Evans gets you you little slut.” A spokesman for South Yorkshire police said: “Officers are looking into the tweets.” The feminist campaigner Jean Hatchet, who started a campaign signed by more than 160,000 people on change.org calling on the club to break all ties with the player , told the Guardian she has been receiving up 500 abusive tweets a minute from supporters of the disgraced footballer.
(10) And at the same time, at just eight years old, I thought, fucking hell, are you this much of a slut for a kind word?
(11) And this is what is so confounding about the word "slut": it's arguably the most ubiquitous slur used against women, and yet it's nearly impossible to define.
(12) "Fucking hypocrite slut," quipped one gallant observer.
(13) Called "whores" and "sluts", husbands shun them and police and judges can re-rape them.
(14) So "slut" (or any of its variations) is an accusation with power behind it.
(15) Somehow, those teenaged girls didn't get a fraction of the media slut-shaming that was levelled on their pop princess counterpart.
(16) She wrote that writers such as Caitlin Moran and Bryony Gordon (the Telegraph journalist allegedly called a “slut” or “slattern” by Michael Fallon , the defence secretary) are producing hyperconfessional works that constitute an “abandoning of dignity and self-respect”.
(17) In December 2012, a Tumblr blog called Snapchat Sluts published photos of topless women, although it claimed the images were all submitted willingly.
(18) Much more chilling for me was the recent debate around the Slut Walks.
(19) She has been an actor for eight years, and last year set up the site to share the kind of adverts for acting jobs she came across: one posted this week said it was looking for actors who are "the very definition of sluts".
(20) Yet we still do most of them (statistically, I mean; I don’t personally, I am a slut) and they are still unpaid.
Trollop
Definition:
(n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
Example Sentences:
(1) She came up with the idea for the series after reading a comparison between Trollope and Austen – Trollope herself has said that "comparisons with Jane Austen make me twitch.
(2) Both events are eloquent testimonies to the perils of what Anthony Trollope's novel called "the way we live now".
(3) We have regular users of the library, for 20 to 30 years, coming and saying to us we don’t know what we’d do without libraries.” Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more More than 100 libraries were closed last year in the UK, with at least 441 shutting in the past five years, according to figures from Speak Up for Libraries , the coalition of organisations working to protect library services and staff that is behind Tuesday’s event.
(4) At the time, I wrote about how depressing it was to be in his moral universe: "A world where men are men and women are trollops."
(5) In the words of another Trollope title, "he knew he was right" , although it had become increasingly clear that he was in fact going badly wrong.
(6) Her lecture was to mark the 10th anniversary of the independent charity The Reading Agency, and was attended by fellow authors including David Nicholls, Julian Barnes, Joanna Trollope and Sarah Waters.
(7) Rebecca Lee, a barrister at the Chambers of Andrew Trollope QC, makes £42,000 a year before tax.
(8) Harold Macmillan spent many Downing Street hours lost in Austen and Trollope; Winston Churchill claimed Austen and antibiotics helped him win the war; Rudyard Kipling gave solace to his family after the death of his son in the first world war by reading Austen aloud in the desolate evenings.
(9) Her debut, Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady" and featuring the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, has been reimagined by Joanna Trollope in a version to be published by HarperCollins later this month.
(10) Anthony Trollope found Austen's novels "full of excellent teaching, and free from any word or idea that can pollute… Throughout all her works, and they are not many, a sweet lesson of homely household virtue is ever being taught."
(11) In a statement on Tuesday evening, Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary of LSE students’ union, said the club would be disbanded for the academic year after the flyer handed out at the freshers’ fair on Friday described women as “mingers”, “trollops” and “slags”.
(12) • canalmuseum.org.uk Kensal Green cemetery Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy One of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries, this canalside location “hosts” the likes of Harold Pinter, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope and the Brunels.
(13) The writer Joanna Trollope and bookseller Christopher Foyle are among the others, not all of whom have chosen to be named.
(14) "An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's The Pallisers has been axed by the BBC and instead I'm doing ... South Riding — a 20th-century story with quite a modern feel.
(15) Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more “We have to do something about the budget, so rather than just cut the service we want to speak with people about what they want going forward.
(16) Now, publisher HarperCollins is hoping it has dreamed up another marriage made in heaven, commissioning Joanna Trollope to write a contemporary reworking of Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility .
(17) It's a respectful conversation, and if it ends up with people talking more about Austen and Trollope, then that's a good thing.
(18) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
(19) Thea’s story: ‘The extrovert in me disappeared going into school’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thea Trollope.
(20) Asked if he worried about Beijing being involved in West Somerset, Trollope-Bellew said: “That’s not in my remit.