Let's be careful out there!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Of course, they never mention that it was men who usually gave them the disease in the first place.

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Loaded

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's a deliberate double-entendre. I heard "load" is a southernism for the clap. The significance is the song "the Weight" by The Band is possibly about STDs, as in "Take a load off Fanny." It's a specious theory, but I felt like sharing.

Re: Loaded

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's an interesting observation. I never even thought about it in that light, but you are certain 'on target' with that.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Nope they never do mention the men; guess they think these women were born with the disease. Plus why aren't the men termed "loose"?

[robert matthews (from livejournal.com)]

Men are all upright decent folks who can be seduced into sin by diseased fornicatrixes, I think.

Men can't be sexually loose for two reasons. First and foremost, "loose" has the connotation of being free and unconfined: men were always considered to be so, but a woman on the loose (which is to say not controlled by her father or her husband) was apt to get into all kinds of trouble. Secondly, promiscuous women are called loose because of the assumption that they've had so many dicks that their vaginas are loose and flappy. Seriously: there are people who think that you can tell how many partners a woman has had by the relative tightness of her vagina. And there were women who, having had an affair, thought that douching with undiluted vinegar, lemon juice, or pickle juice would tighten up the vagina, on the principle that those things make you pucker your lips. I am not making this up.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

I have no doubt that you are not making it up; I was simply expressing irritation with the double standard.

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah, now we can have surgery on our genitalia! #enlightenment

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I was going to make a really nasty comment, but I'm gonna give it a pass, I think.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Not loose - experienced. Sigh...

LOVE your icon!

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right. :( *snort*

Lol, I recall I made it many years ago when something had seriously pissed me off...probably some misogynistic bullshit.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I can't say what pisses me off more - misogynistic crap or the people who insist it doesn't exist. We have come a long way and for some reason, many young women seem eager to backslide and embrace all the garbage we fought so hard against in the 60's. Still such a long journey ahead.