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In total, 166 of the collected terms were either for or about women specifically. Sutton isolated these terms, looked for patterns, and was able to divide them into four semantic categories based on the following themes: sexual promiscuity, fatness, evilness, and level of hotness. Highlights from the database included words such as slut, whore, and skankly hobag (used to describe sexually loose women); bitch and biscuit (for women with an attitude); hootchie and pink taco (to represent a woman by describing just her genitals); and heifer and hellpig (to describe a woman based on her ugliness ...more
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
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