I'd say that if you're not comfortable with the tag being applied to you, and it sounds like you're not, you're free to say "That's not me."
I don't believe in a lot of "taking it back" style campaigns for english words. "Slut" and "whore" mean very specific things to 90% of the population, and why should you get smeared with that same social brush just because someone is "taking it back" and is calling you that "playfully"?
So yeah, feel free to tell someone "don't call me that" whenever you don't feel it's appropriate. Even though you feel as though it doesn't touch you, since you're not this thing they're calling you, it's a societal label that is unpleasant to have thrown in your general direction, especially since not everyone knows the context.
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Date: 2008-07-14 07:15 pm (UTC)I don't believe in a lot of "taking it back" style campaigns for english words. "Slut" and "whore" mean very specific things to 90% of the population, and why should you get smeared with that same social brush just because someone is "taking it back" and is calling you that "playfully"?
So yeah, feel free to tell someone "don't call me that" whenever you don't feel it's appropriate. Even though you feel as though it doesn't touch you, since you're not this thing they're calling you, it's a societal label that is unpleasant to have thrown in your general direction, especially since not everyone knows the context.