slipjig3: (penance)
I should have done this right after this post, but better late than never:

[Poll #1896909]

Feel free to explain your choices in comments. Also, even though many if not most of these terms are gender-specific, please do not feel constrained by terms attached to your own identified gender.
slipjig3: (penance)
Chatting with [livejournal.com profile] belgatherial the other night, in response to a statement from her that I do not recall, I playfully referred to her as a "trollop." She replied that no, she was not so much a trollop as a strumpet, as the latter term seemed to connote more of a playful joie de vivre. Naturally, as all good sex talk should, things devolved into a trip to the thesaurus.

The list we found and considered (not as all-inclusive as it could be) was as follows:

hussy, minx, coquette, tease, seductress, Lolita, Jezebel, slut, harlot, loose woman, floozy, tart, vamp, tramp, trollop, jade, strumpet

We quickly agreed that the various terms for wanton women have pronounced qualitative differences, and devoted the next chunk of our Skype date to trying to delineate them: A tease is someone who says she will but doesn't actually, unless she's French, in which case she's a coquette. A harlot takes her sluthood as a tacit religious calling, while with a Jezebel, the only religious one is the one using the term in the first place. Minx, tart and hussy are merely variations of the same thing, arranged in order of distance from floor to hemline. A tramp is a seductress after four cheap beers, and a floozy is the same with a substantial IQ reduction. [livejournal.com profile] belgatherial felt strongly that "loose woman" should be reserved for scullery-maids in nightstand Victorian novels, the sort who keep getting backed into armoires and bent over dressing tables with little protest: "Oh, Lord Cronenweth! How scandalous!" We disagreed on "vamp"—she thinks "Goth club rat," while I go for "noir femme fatale."

But this is all purely subjective, I'm well aware, so I'll open the floor to discussion. Ignoring for the moment whether or not the difference between such terms for men and such terms for women is wrong and unfair (SPOILER: it totally is like whoa), how would you categorize the terms above? Is there anything that the preceding list from the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus woefully omitted?

BWIMF

Aug. 14th, 2012 08:50 pm
slipjig3: (penance)
I present the following in the interest of making public an addition to the English lexicon that should prove most useful in the continuance of daily affairs:

As you likely know, it is not unusual in geeky circles for overt sexual activity to be discussed via coy and/or clever euphemisms. Often such euphemisms are followed by a verbal wink of some sort, such as "...if you know what I mean," to be sure there is no misinterpretation of the fact that "we did some studying of our own" actually means "I banged her like the bass drum in an Independence Day parade." This, however, takes time, and can sometimes upset the narrative flow of the tale in progress.

Some time ago, [livejournal.com profile] figmentj, in the interest of brevity, came up with the term "BWIMF" (pronounced "bwimf"), which stands for "By Which I Mean Fucking." In practical terms, it means, "The last bit of innuendo I just said isn't explicit enough regarding the involvement of penises and vaginas, so here ya go." This has proven immensely versatile, in such situations as:

* "After the show he and I going to go get coffee. BWIMF."
* "Why don't you turn off the computer and come sit by me? BWIMF."
* "Jesus H. Christ on a pontoon boat, the neighbors kept me up all night partying. BWIMF."
* I sure could use a backrub. BWIMF."
* "They're dating. BWIMF."

You get the picture. And so, having served us well in our conversations, we release BWIMF in to the wild. Wear it in good health, my friends.
slipjig3: (filet o' fish)
Over an online game of Scrabble:

[livejournal.com profile] figmentj: Why can't I get a vowel? Who do I need to blow around here to get a fucking vowel?
Me: [raises hand]
[livejournal.com profile] figmentj: If I blow you, I'll get a vowel?
Me: I cannot make any guarantees on that. On the other hand, hey, it's worth a shot.
[livejournal.com profile] figmentj: That's not a very good offer.
Me: C'mon. Do it in the name of science. Embrace the scientific method.
[livejournal.com profile] figmentj: Are you saying you'd like me to manipulate your variable?
Me: ...hold that thought, I need to blog this....
slipjig3: (Default)
[livejournal.com profile] figmentj has written an amazing piece on emergence, relationship entities, and the misnomer “having sex.” Go check it out over here.
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