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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Started conversation Jan 27, 2013
If a woman had done something that wasn't actually forbidden, but that society nonetheless considered to be scandalous, what might you call her while you were gossiping with your friends behind her back?
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jan 27, 2013
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HonestIago Posted Jan 27, 2013
A trollop or a tart, or if it was more serious a slut or a slag. Bitch might be used as well.
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HonestIago Posted Jan 27, 2013
Quite surprised that got past the filther. Lest anyone accuse me of misogyny I'd also use those terms for the scandalous behaviour of male friends.
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 27, 2013
I once played jezebels as an first-turn double-double word in Scrabble, enabled by my opponent putting down a B in the right place. 108 points, if I remember rightly.
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Xanatic Posted Jan 27, 2013
You call your male friends trollops?
Jezebel is a character from the bible, often used as a reference to a woman of loose morals.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jan 27, 2013
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swl Posted Jan 27, 2013
Hmm. What should a group of flibbertigibbets refer to someone else as?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 27, 2013
I'm having trouble getting into the right frame of mind for this because I don't know what the woman in question has done that is so objectionable. For instance, if the woman's legal but socially frowned-on actions consisted of chewing out her husband or boyfriend, she might be called a harpy or harridan or henpecker. if she cheats at card games, she's a cheater. If she flouts social conventions eveyr chance she gets, she's a nonconformist.
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U14993989 Posted Jan 27, 2013
Ignore the beginning part where Satan appears, and pay attention post 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKORcr1jhY
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Jan 27, 2013
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jan 28, 2013
Because it's a comedy and we have to laugh at the character's stupidity.
~*~I'm having trouble getting into the right frame of mind for this because I don't know what the woman in question has done that is so objectionable.~*~
Well it wouldn't matter now. Let's see... How to explain this...
The story takes place in the 1890s in England. Lucy, an upper-class woman, sleepwalks outside her home in the middle of the night. Her friend, Mina, goes out and finds her, then brings her back home. In our modern age no one would care a whit, but back then (for some reason) such a thing could apparently lead to a huge scandal and vicious rumors, so on the way back to the house Mina makes sure they're not seen by anybody and then doesn't mention it to Lucy's doctor later.
Where the joke comes in is that the Doctor is asking Mina questions and Mina frantically denies that any of the above ever happened. She says something along the lines of: "Lucy is a respectable member of the community, not some... some... scarlet woman / trollop / jezebel / strumpet!"
I'm leaning toward jezebel.
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You can call me TC Posted Jan 28, 2013
As Incognitas says, it's best to avoid such insults, but when I was a girl, if someone had done something nasty, or if the speaker simply didn't like her, she would call her a "cow". I have heard a joke about two modern teenage girls bitching. One calls the other a f**ing cow. And the insulted one complains "She called me a cow!" - the f**ing being of no consequence to her, but the "cow" part really hitting home.
Just goes to show. When I was that age we would never have used the f word. We probably hadn't even heard of it.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jan 28, 2013
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Hoovooloo Posted Jan 28, 2013
Before I reached post 17, I was already mentally composing a post in which I recommended the word "hussy". I can now merely second B's excellent suggestion.
"Slattern" might also work in the context.
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- 2: Xanatic (Jan 27, 2013)
- 3: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Jan 27, 2013)
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- 11: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Jan 27, 2013)
- 12: swl (Jan 27, 2013)
- 13: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jan 27, 2013)
- 14: U14993989 (Jan 27, 2013)
- 15: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Jan 27, 2013)
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- 18: You can call me TC (Jan 28, 2013)
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