Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Bullshit. "Bitch" is the female equivalent of "asshole." Everyone who has said they call women "assholes" here today is most likely full of shit. Some words fit better with men. Some with women. While I'm not denying that "bitch" is certainly female specific and asshole could be (in theory) used on women, they both mean the same thing for different genders in most cases.

When I call a piece of shit female partner a "bitch" under my breath as I walk away, it is no different than when I label a piece of shit male partner, "asshole." I think most people use those words this way.

If you really feel the need to be careful about being sexist, just use "dumbass" or "piece of shit." Those work wonderfully on men and women.

Thurgreed("bitchy," on the other hand, is almost always sexist)Marshall

I remember I was jogging on the sidewalk once and I bumped into this guy as I was overtaking him. It was totally an accident but he muttered "asshole" under his breath. I was totally shocked I remember (because I was expecting, if anything, "bitch". As I've said, I often get mistaken for a man (10 times since I've moved here at last count), so I wanted to turn around and say "I'm not a guy!!".

So my point is that instinctively I think that "asshole"is not a gender neutral insult but rather one that is customarily applied to men, for whatever reason. I guess the anus is traditionally male. Like you wouldn't call an old woman an old fart, you'd call her an old bag or something.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Alas! Tho never better have they fair'd
Now like the nymphets spinsters are compar'd.

Excellent! The model of readability.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick

So my point is that instinctively I think that "asshole"is not a gender neutral insult but rather one that is customarily applied to men, for whatever reason. I guess the anus is traditionally male. Like you wouldn't call an old woman an old fart, you'd call her an old bag or something.

You've hit on the answer: it's because women don't fart.

[Anne Elk]

(image from www.espn.com which got it from the front page of the Iowa paper)

So here we have the Iowa basketball coach, who is decidely Left Tail in his decision making, hanging with the bitches while he left the hag back home in Iowa. I hope they are only moist from the spilled beer. Mr. Eustachy (asshole) is probably tumescent. I wonder, is there any correlation between being left tail and being tumescent?


Edited to say:
Damn! The picture thing didn't work. Check it out at espn.com.

Edited to correct picture link. E/O

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You've hit on the answer: it's because women don't fart.

No, we pass gas.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by purse junkie
"Bitch" is always sexist and I hardly ever use it. Used against a man, it's a negative implication that the guy is like a woman--horrors! Used against a woman, it's almost always a punishment for someone who steps out of her proper place.

"C--t" is even worse and I never, ever, ever use it except about...well, she knows who she is.

My college roommate had a habit of yelling "TWAT!" at the top of her lungs. This was disconcerting to those who thought that (1) it was unnecessary at a women's college to announce that you had one or (2) that it was an insult directed at someone specific or (3) that it was a request for some action from anyone in hearing distance.

"Asshole" I always thought of as gender-neutral. Right now though I prefer "skank."

This reminds me: I used to have a teammate who, if the person whom he was defending got open and caught a pass, he would yell out "CUNT" quite loudly. I found this behavior odd. He also would often play wearing a T-Shirt from the "House of Babes," a strip club in Fern Park, FL (Orlando suburb), which was easily the most offensive shirt I've ever seen. A year later, I found myself in Orlando for a conference and toddled off to the House of Babes (after a trip to the Jai-Alai, natch) one fine evening. I ended up getting two shirts of my own (lap dance and a t-shirt for $10!!!), which have long since disappeared from my collection. I also met a lovely young lady who claimed she went to Rollins,. when not performing for her customers. The moral is, skip Epcot, hit the House of Babes.

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This reminds me: I used to have a teammate who, if the person whom he was defending got open and caught a pass, he would yell out "CUNT" quite loudly. I found this behavior odd. He also would often play wearing a T-Shirt from the "House of Babes," a strip club in Fern Park, FL (Orlando suburb), which was easily the most offensive shirt I've ever seen. A year later, I found myself in Orlando for a conference and toddled off to the House of Babes (after a trip to the Jai-Alai, natch) one fine evening. I ended up getting two shirts of my own (lap dance and a t-shirt for $10!!!), which have long since disappeared from my collection. I also met a lovely young lady who claimed she went to Rollins,. when not performing for her customers. The moral is, skip Epcot, hit the House of Babes.

I'm not sure I get the point, except that you can get a ten dollar lap dance in Fern Park. Or maybe that it takes two ten dollar lap dances to do the trick.

You took a weird U-turn in the middle of that story.

AM(huh?)M

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Jack Osborne's gone for help:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/04/2...hab/index.html

Alcohol I can see, but over marijuana?

I'm hoping this means he'll never be seen again on TV. If there was ever a case of "would never, ever, ever be remotely famous or ever, ever, ever get to have sex without having to pay a huge amount of money for it if it weren't for his dad being famous" that boy is it.

This explains why Kelly was everywhere at Coachella (with a very tall blonde mohawk), along with her skanky fat "drummer" friend, but Jack was not, despite the fact that it was a perfect Jack Osborne scene.

This reminds me of one last mildly amusing Coachella story. People badly wanted to get up on stage for White Stripes, me and the s/o included. The band's manager or lawyer had brought his 14(?) year old son, who looked a bit like Jack Osborne, and a bunch of his friends. The manager/lawyer was up on stage and pointed out his son+posse to the security guard. The security guard called out: "How many you got." The kid yelled back "9 . . . no wait, 11." So the 11 kids get up on stage. The kid is now king shit, but he realizes he forgot about these two chicks. So we see him up on the stage, talking to the security guard. The security guard says "sorry, you said it was 11. That's all I can do." He had that look that only 14 year olds have when they realize they're not going to score, and was yelling stuff like "I'm trying, hang on, I'm sorry, I'm trying, hang on, don't go."

Of course, after the White Stripes' set, we saw him heading back to the VIP area with a girl on each arm. Fuckin kids.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by lawyer_princess
Here's a good gender-neutral insult for you. It's more in the "stupid" category than the "jerk" category like we've been discussing, but it's good in a sofa king we todd did way.

My husband was reading The Bell Curve and around that time had a conversaton with a very stupid person. In tellling me about it, he said the guy was way far down the left tail of the bell curve. So now whenever we encounter someone incredibly stupid, we call them "left tail." The beauty of it is that we can even say it to their faces and they're too left tail to get it.

Sylvia Plath references are far too rare! I applaud your efforts to reintroduce her work into today's argot!

str8.

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by SEC_Chick
Bonus: Anna Nicole is addicted to Vicodin (CTD, where are you?) because of back pain caused by her huge fake boobs.

Here I am! How did you know I like big boobs? I have never discussed my fetish publicly.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Sylvia Plath references are far too rare! I applaud your efforts to reintroduce her work into today's argot!

str8.

Bell jars come in handy for storing left tails.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Bell jars come in handy for storing left tails.

I think we'd be safe in assuming exclamation points = sarcasm siren.

[ltl/fb]

Someone just said I looked "prancey" (or would that be "prancy"?). Either way, does that make me a kitty or a flower?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by evenodds
I think we'd be safe in assuming exclamation points = sarcasm siren.

Ask not for whom the sarcasm siren tolls!!

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Someone just said I looked "prancey" (or would that be "prancy"?). Either way, does that make me a kitty or a flower?

I think em might have meant you look like a princess.

AM(feeling a little bitchy today in my severe ponytail)M