//So, like, yeah. There's this girl in res, and she's a big slut. So like, one night she sucked off 10 guys, and like, swallowed it all. Then she got sick, and couldn't stop like, throwing up!//

So the story goes. April told me last night, after I read some MSN conversation between her and Fuckwit about his Fuckwit roommate and said 'slut'.

It irked me. It irked me partly because April calls herself a feminist, then goes on to regal stories about the various res "sluts". It also irked me that we still label girls and women that word, that a woman who is "loose" is obviously a slut.

I recently read Fast Girls, by Emily White which was precisely on this subject. White wrote in great detail about the "train job", where a girl gives blow jobs to endless numbers of guys in a night.

And apparently, since said "slut" told this story herself, it's obviously true. So now people side step her, other girls whisper and talk behind her back, and all the guys assume that they can get in her pants with one cocked eyebrow and a dream.

I'm also bothered by the fact that in our society women are either sluts or prudes. If you will have sex, you're a slut. If you won't, you're obviously a prude. There is no grey area, there is no in between for us to stand. We're either on our backs spread eagle or sitting with our legs tightly crossed.

Maybe that girl has done every guy living here. Does it matter? Is it really anyone's business? I don't think so. One day she may be a mother, a wife, an employee who works hard. But all that anyone will remember is that she's the one who'll open her legs for any guy who's willing, the one who swallows until she pukes.

As White also wrote, everyone remembers the slut. You may not remember her name, her hair colour, if she excelled at school or not, but you'll remember the acts she performed.

God, sometimes I really hate being female. Why are we so mean to each other?