A Cultural History of Feminine Nouns Turned Into Insults
‘Slut’ and ‘hussy’ used to have tame meanings. Then, like so many other feminine nouns, they came to mean ‘prostitute’
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6 min readMay 21, 2019
If you want to insult a woman, call her a prostitute. If you want to insult a man, call him a woman.
