Yipes, too many tornadoes! I found the footage Hayden linked to too scary to watch all the way through. So upsetting.

It's hard for someone inclined to use the word "slut" to really consider whether those numbers consist of guys that were well-chosen. The denotation is lots of guys. The connotation is indiscriminate.

I'm loving on bon bon's brain right now.

WRT the slut conversation, ita, I'm wondering why you want to apply the term slut to yourself. What gives?

I'm wondering why you want to apply the term slut to yourself. What gives?

I don't have an inherently negative association with the term. If you apply it to people who sleep with other people they barely know/just met, well, that's me.

OK, I can see that. So that's why you were asking which was the most relevant criteria, numbers or discrimiting taste?

Ugh. I just don't like the term slut I guess. I never much cottoned to the reclaiming of cunt either.

I have heard the term male slut pretty regularly.

I do use the word "slutty" but more as a modifier than as a descriptor. For example, I wouldn't call a woman slutty for sleeping with a number of men indiscriminately. But I would definitely describe Johnny Thunders' guitar sound as slutty: cheaply appealing, dirty, aggressive, squawking.

Hayden, I'm sorry to hear about your friends and old neighborhood getting so buffetted by the twisters. Keep your head down, buddy.

So that's why you were asking which was the most relevant criteria, numbers or discrimiting taste?

No, it was because I saw a discussion everywhere where a guy was being lambasted (in absentia) for calling women sluts because they'd slept with a large number of people. And I disagreed-he was calling them sluts because they slept with people he disapproved of. Now, still a douchewad, but just a different argument.

The application of it to me was just because Jesse pretty much called out my sex life in precise words.

I have heard the term male slut pretty regularly.

In my experience, Jimmy's just been called a slut on rare occasions, but never a male slut. Just a slut, *if* he's being judged for sleeping around and around.

In my mind, I think of "slutty" as a description of a woman's clothes instead of her behavior. I don't know any women who I'd consider sluts for their behavior.

I think of "slutty" as a description of a woman's clothes instead of her behavior

OMG, rage-blackout.

But I'm bringing negative associations there--I should not assume. I just don't think clothes can be slutty. Suggestive, yes, but even that is pretty subjective and prone to problems.

The application of it to me was just because Jesse pretty much called out my sex life in precise words.

I did not mean to! I was trying to make up a fake example! Sorry.

Nice after the fact attempt at a coverup, Cowgirl.

Developer, why did you go ahead with IE-only modifications when we *just* got the entire site cross-browser compatible?