Here Is A Book With A Title I Cannot Put In A Post

 Although my monitoring software let me get to the Los Angeles Review of Books interview with its editor, I do not want to find myself blocked again from my own blog! I still cannot get to The Scotsman or WXPN. 

They use a word I never approved of being used by men towards women. It is hypocritical to use this word as a put-down of women who you have slept with. I suspect the men using it do so when they know they have not given as good as they got. 

(I assume women using it towards other women are just jealous of not getting what the other got.)

Women like s-e-x as much as men do. That they do not get quality performances from their choices of males may make them jaded, but that does not mean they do not like to participate. Women who like to participate are not to be put down for this. They are to be thanked for their kindness to us men.

The interview is here, and this is a mutilated quote from it:

Diving into content a bit, the anthology starts with this great piece by Amanda Montell called “Slut Eras,” which is a lot about semantics and the lexicon of sex and the power of language in society. She writes about how meanings morph: “Who knows what ‘slut’ could mean in a decade or even a year. But our culture’s larger relationship to pleasure will be what determines it.” So, big question for you—what do you think slut will mean in the future? What is your vision or prediction for this word?

I feel like, in the future, it might be a passé, tired term. There might be some other term that arises and encapsulates what slut means for us right now, like hedonistic and liberated and horny and sexy or whatever. But I could totally see it sort of feeling “very 2024.”

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