Inappropriate Words

This week turned into a media circus of sorts....once a Georgetown law student got into the contrception mess by appearing in front of Congress and discussing the painful financial woes of birth control pills for college gals.

By the middle of the week, Rush Limbaugh rushed into the mess.....tossing the word "slut" onto the female Georgetown college student.  Then yesterday, a number of media folks and political folks (mostly Democrats) rushed up to say that "slut" was a highly offensive term and very inappropriate to utter.  At one point, even the Georgetown University chancellor rushed in....to say this term of "slut" was a terrible misrepresentation of ladies at his university.

I sat and pondered over this.  It's sad in a way that a university chancellor has to stand up and defend young ladies at his university from being called "sluts".  Personally, I can't think of any professor, in the history of the United States, who ever got called in to utter his defense of "sluts".  We've had chancellors say regrets for riots, corruption, raising tuition, unsportsman-like behavior, hazing, and bad professors....but this is the first time for commenting on "sluts".

The truth here (my humble numbers)?  If you use typical average numbers for colleges like Mississippi State, Texas Tech, and Florida State....then your slut-average on campus is likely to be less than five percent of the female population.  Sure, you might run out to UCLA or Nevada State, and run up against a ten percent statistic, but that's rare.  Georgetown?  This is a $59k a year tuition, book and dorm fee situation.....so when you come to a place like this.....there aren't many folks fooling around or wasting their time.  I admit, there are more ladies to men at Georgetown (roughly 55 percent to 45 percent), and out of 3200-odd ladies there....there might be forty-four sluts at best.

So from my humble guess of forty-four Georgetown sluts, I personally think Rush went a bit overboard.  I'm pretty sure that none of the forty-four Georgetown sluts worry much about birth control, and have situation covered, without much help from the government.

Tonight, I'm guessing forty-four sluts from Georgetown University will mingle at some bar, discuss their situation, and hostility over a number of non-sluts being tossed into their category.  You don't want slut-wannabes or pretender sluts walking around and claiming your status....it just ain't right.  Eventually, Rush will travel to Georgetown, and say his regrets to the forty-four gals.....in that he never wanted to put non-sluts into their category.  They'll all share a beer....give Rush a Georgetown University "Sluts" t-shirt, and the story will quietly disappear the very next day.

Only in America.