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    Default why is the word slut so powerful?

    from the bbc
    'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
    petronius, the satyricon
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    I don't think that this has much to do with any particular significance of the word "slut" and everything to do with it being apparently acceptable for police to justify rape on the grounds of women's dress.

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