History of Feminism

I don't see any way around using this phrase and not branding the person a slut. The "slut walk" pisses me off for the same reason as well "save the boobies" (as if breast cancer is all about saving breasts rather than saving lives especially since NOT saving one or both DOES literally mean saving lives, and many women DO die trying other ways to beat the disease to avoid losing the "all-powerful" breast that should never have that power to supposedly define a female to begin with). My mother is a very long time survivor of breast cancer because she DIDN'T believe that saving a breast was so important to define her femaleness, and had it removed the day after she found out she had breast cancer. Had she opted for other options that may have saved the breast she may have died and would have had to go through debilitating chemo treatments when having it removed saved her from any chemo or even radiation.

Seems to me that all these phrases do is make a REALLY stupid attempt to "own" the word or "take it back" which makes no sense to me at all since the very LAST thing I want to do is own it much less accept it at all or "take back" something I always rejected like poison.

Words have meaning. Using words or phrases that are unquestionably slurs in ways that try to "tame" them and make them lose their power is exactly the wrong thing to do since words or phrases that lose their power make people more COMFORTABLE in using them but without changing their meaning one iota. No way in hell do I want any bigoted slurs lose their power when they don't have ENOUGH power to even convince people they ARE slurs.