Whether you're somebody who rejects the very idea of that stigma or somebody who takes it very seriously, it's disturbing to hear it evoked so wantonly. And however we think of the word now, we can't help recalling the casual cruelty of the middle-school lunchroom where we first learned how vicious it could sound, even though we had only the vaguest idea of what it was about.
Used wantonly? Primitive push-back against the loss of standards? It remains an effective word used by women to attack the reputation of other women, because they know the unpleasant truth, despite the attempt of feminism to rewrite human nature.
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