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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:00 PM Jan 2013

Example of rape culture

I was shocked to see this.

There is a thread (completely unrelated to rape) in GD about "coke jaw", so I googled "coke jaw" and found this:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coke%20Jaw

I don't even know how to reply to this kind of thing.

OK it's a definition of "coke jaw" and it's only 4 paragraphs so I'll just paste it here:

Common symptom of a cocaine-abuser aka coke-head. Inability to stop moving their jaw and not STFU. Grinding their teeth or moving their jaw in a strange manner when talking or standing also applies.

If someone is a coke-head you can tell by their constant sniffing, obnoxiousness , slutiness , paranoia , drama-starting , and coke jaw.

Harvey : Dude, what happened to Vanessa? She used to be so sweet and wholesome before she went to college...I heard she got gangbanged last week by the entire rugby team...

Tony : yea bro....she started hanging out with these sketchballs and lost all her self-respect... She used to be so beautiful then.....she's just a coke jaw noww.....hooo hooo hooo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

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whathehell

(29,067 posts)
2. ;You're being facetious, right?
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:38 PM
Jan 2013

Because you know we don't "own" it, right?...I'm confident you do,

I'm just trying to confirm. I think girls and women who use the ugly slur

are kind of dumbass, frankly....Why join in on a judgment which is based entirely

on a Double Standard and which might someday be

be leveled against you (No, boys are decidedly not always fair,

after all, the double standard itself isn't fair, and "good behavior" won't

won't necessarily keep you safe) I remember, in fact,

being called ugly gender slurs like that when I was SO young I didn't

even know their meaning. -- The cause?...I was 13 and had befriended an

unfortunate 14 year old with a "loose" reputation that I didn't know about

and the bastards thought "birds of a feather flock together", I guess.

It's like what Tina Fey tells the high school girls at the end

of the movie Mean Girls: "Stop calling each other sluts, it just makes it

easier for guys to do it".

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
3. i do not think we can own the word. silliness, and we have daily evidence it is ridiculous
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:44 PM
Jan 2013

to think we can.

ismnotwasm

(41,986 posts)
4. Urban dictionary is a great resource.
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:48 PM
Jan 2013

For all things homophobic, sexist, misogynist, heterosexist, racist, you name it, they got it. Any nickname for any sexual act, especially ones not common.

It does have a good use to identify current slang, but its has a wiki like edit structure without the restraints. And since the freaks come out in the nighttime of anonymity, you get what you get using it----All things Ultra vile and proud of it.

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