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So.. it occured to me recently that in a society that wasn’t sick and insane, ‘slut’ would be a compliment.. And, actually, I think amongst some circles, it already is.<\/p>\n

But.. once you start redefining words that had a negative connotation as being positive, where do you stop? Certainly not with words like ‘whore’. I mean, ‘geek’ has already been reclaimed to be positive – ‘nerd’ I suppose probably is amongst some people although I still have kind of a horror of it. Really, are there any words that are insults, when taken the right way? Is it possible to morph anything insulting that’s been said to me to actually be a compliment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So.. it occured to me recently that in a society that wasn’t sick and insane, ‘slut’ would be a compliment.. And, actually, I think amongst some circles, it already is. But.. once you start redefining words that had a negative connotation as being positive, where do you stop? Certainly not with words like ‘whore’. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}