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Matt Lauer: Long rumored to be a womanizer who denied affair with Natalie Morales (Original Post) still_one Nov 2017 OP
I have sometimes wondered why there's no exact equivalent for women The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #1
Man Eater? Pachamama Nov 2017 #3
Good refresher article on this RW miscreant dalton99a Nov 2017 #2
Morales went on to head Access Hollywood...???? Skidmore Nov 2017 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. I have sometimes wondered why there's no exact equivalent for women
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 12:19 PM
Nov 2017

of the term "womanizer." A womanizer is a man who sleeps around with a lot of different women. But there's no equivalent word, "manizer," for a woman who sleeps around with a lot of different men. She just gets called a slut, a term that's a lot more pejorative than womanizer, a guy who is really just a "slutty" man. But men are never slutty; they're just doing their man thing.

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