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Isn't "whore" gender neutral?
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Isn't "whore" gender neutral?
- DiabloD3 11y agoYes, but it is insulting to the non-whores. Its also insulting to non-people. We need a gender neutral, species neutral, personhood neutral word to describe "corporate whores".
- MikeNomad 11y agoCorpratists.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoSort of. You might see a headline that says "CONGRESSMAN CAUGHT WITH MALE PROSTITUTE", but never "CONGRESSMAN CAUGHT WITH FEMALE PROSTITUTE"--it's one of those concepts that is understood to be female by default.
- jspiral 11y agoI'm trying to think which gender i'd guess if I read: CONGRESSWOMAN CAUGHT WITH PROSTITUTE. I honestly think i'd guess male prostitute.
- transman 11y agoI'm old enough that when I learned what "whore" meant it was only in reference to a female prostitute. "Gigolo" was the term for a male who had sex for money, but it's never had the same negative connotation as whore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution
- threeseed 11y agoNo. Hence the term "man whore" was invented as the male equivalent. Plus you can always get a good idea of how regular young people define a term: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whore http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whore