Call It the ‘Post-DTF Stroll,’ Maybe?

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Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say. For example, we cannot be permitted to disapprove of promiscuous women, and so the language of disapproval must be suppressed.

Which predictably brings us to the latest from Amanda Marcotte:

The “walk of shame” is a slang term that usually describes a person, usually a woman, who is making her way home from spending the night at someone else’s house for a sexual encounter.
The iconic image of a woman doing the walk of shame is disheveled hair and party-ready clothes that look sadly comical in the cold light of day. But it’s not her appearance that makes her trot home one of “shame.” No, as far as most people who use the phrase, her “shame” is that her appearance lets everyone know that she probably had sex, and for some reason, she is supposed to be ashamed of that.
“Walk of shame” is a phrase that’s widely understood to have originated on college campuses, since people who spent the night at a lover’s place often do have to walk on foot home to their own place, and usually in front of other people who recognize them and might recognize that their clubbing clothes don’t exactlymatch the casual wear that’s more common for mornings on campus. It’s expanded since then to encompass urban dwellers who often travel on foot or by public transportation and, in fact, has become so ubiquitous that you’ll often hear people who get to drive home say they were taking the walk of shame. (Drive of shame?)
But while the “walk” part of the phrase is understood flexibly, in many ways the “shame” part isn’t. . . .

You can read the whole absurdly censorious thing. Here we are, on the eve of sixth annual National Offend a Feminist Week, and Amanda Marcotte decides to give us a lecture on the need to remove “shame” from the dictionary insofar as it refers to sluts, tramps, hussies, floozies, man-traps, wenches, trollops and Women of Dubious Virtue?

Are we not to describe such women as “easy,” “cheap” or “loose”? Do the Enlightened Arbiters of Acceptable Discourse mean to banish from our lexicon every possible synonym for “promiscuous”? Can we no longer be allowed to remark that the dolled-up bimbo making goo-goo eyes at every man in the bar is hot to trot, on the prowl, looking for some quick action and down to fuck?

Well, it’s still more than four hours before midnight EDT, but I can wait no more: National Offend a Feminist Week begins early!

Take that, you dirty lowdown harlots!

 

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  3. Here’s a thought: maybe if more women would spend less time making themselves into dick repositories, we wouldn’t have to be having national discussions on abortion, marriage, and slut-shaming. Three problems cured by women keeping their pants on and refusing to do the horizontal mambo before the “I do’s” have been said.

    I know, I know: how DARE I suggest women should exhibit some self control? How DARE I suggest hewing to a moral standard that doesn’t work on a sliding scale? How DARE I betray the sisterhood – and their sac-less male sycophants – by suggesting women have some self respect and show some common decency?

  6. Er, well, then you end up throwing the onus for bad behavior back on men? Or do I misread the issue?

  9. As the proud father of two daughters who were teenagers not that long ago, I can tell you the number one users of the word “slut” are teenaged girls, describing other girls.

    The lovely Miss Marcotte believes that politics can somehow change human nature, but it really can’t.

  10. I typically use it in the sense of ‘a person typical of the lowest or basest social group in a city’ but applied exclusively to females. Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it when used on guys.

  11. Walk of shame…
    Also known as the “she is stuck taking what ever lowlife hobo she can pay and is tired of people making fun of her for it “walk.

  12. Actually, having had my share of walk of shames, Marcotte is incorrect. There is nothing shameful about the sex part of the walk of shame. The shameful part is who you had sex with.

    The walk of shame is almost always combined with copious amounts of alcohol or other party inebriates. These factors typically lead to sex with someone who under regular circumstances, you wouldn’t have engaged in sex with. Often your friends leave you while you are working things out with your soon-to-be walk of shame partner. Thus, you have to walk home. Yes, it can happen a lot in college. But the walk can also occur after a taxi ride or even after your one-night-stand partner drives you back to your apartment. When you open the door and your roommates pause for a second from their bong hits while you stroll across the living space, the walk of shame can occur.

    So Marcotte has many things wrong. I’m not sure if that is because she has never had a walk of shame, because she is ugly, because she is stupid, or all three. But she is wrong. It is not about sex. The shameful part is that you had sex with someone who your friends (and likely yourself) believe to be beneath your perspective spot on the rungs of society’s ladder of attractiveness.

  14. I don’t see most guys as being the sex-crazed, rapist caricatures feminists make them out to be. So the way I see it, if women aren’t hopping in the sack with anything with a Y-chromasome, the men aren’t suddenly going to start raping women with wild abandon. Both sides are responsible in different ways for the current view of sex, but I think women hold more cards in that arena by virtue of the fact that, on the whole, men are decent people and will respect being told no, even though the women have something they really want. I focused on women because I’m tired of the constant blame shifting to men. Sure, a guy can ask a woman to sleep with him. But she has the ultimate power to say no. And after that, even if he begs, she can still say no. Barring him becoming a rapist, as long as she holds firm, he won’t get any.

  15. It isn’t complicated. The shame isn’t in having sex. It’s in having sex with someone who cares so little for you that they made you walk home early the next morning.

  19. It’s a person of any age or sex who is of the lowest class, or behaves as if he/she/he-she is.

    In the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was most commonly used to refer to “street urchins” or homeless children who scavenged to survive.

    The modern term for a smart-mouthed young person is “Obama supporter.”

  23. I have awakened in the morning wondering what sort of surprise was beside me in the bed with her back to me. But it was long ago in a distant galaxy.

  24. “The modern term for a smart-mouthed young person is “Obama supporter.”‘

    But, Obama is very popular among adolescents of all ages.

  27. When I was younger I felt that a lot of women drank so as to excuse the indiscriminate sex that followed. Now I find that a lot of women want to get right to the main event and later bitch about the lack of romance. Maybe romance is a casualty of the culture wars.

  30. I’d say that’s probably a good bet. Much like buying the proverbial cow, why would a man make an effort to make a woman feel special when she turns herself into a walking vagina?

  31. I’m confused.

    Surely the walk of shame would be performed by any poor bedraggled man known to have bumped uglies with Amanda Marcotte?

  33. I used to tell the coyote ugly joke until the morning I woke up and she was gnawing on her arm…

  34. I’m with you KM. The seventies were not my time of greatest judgement. I lost a lot of underwear because I didn’t want to wake the beast searching for it in the blankets.

  38. Thou shalt not take the name of Feminist in vain, for this is thy new God and those are the new chosen people…

    I am in, big time. This week I posting about vintage women (rule 5) and women’s suffrage in the 1920s

    The Feminist in the 1920s were just nuts – fun project, if you want to play

  39. As a male walk-of-shamer, I feel marginalized. Though in fairness, relatively few men are in any position to call a female walk-of-shamer “loose” or “cheap.”

  40. Walk of shame definitely says one night stand, since you would have brought a change of clothes if you were expecting not to come home until the next day. I was unaware it meant you hooked up with a moped.

  41. Bucket seats killed parking. Cars used to have a sofa up front! BTW is your avatar the guy from Phantasm?

  42. Now that I think of it. When a woman forgoes the morning primp, it’s the walk of shame. When the guy is trying to get the girl out the door before his buds show up…

  44. Well, it’s more like they want to find out if the guy’s a good lay before they invest in a relationship. Here’s one, I take a woman out and during dinner she asks what my credit score is. Romance is dead.

  45. Speaking of indeterminate sex, our host has been quite remiss in not giving us a certain Kinks video with some of his blogs about that.

  46. Since I cannot recall ever having copulated with any woman other than my darling bride (of 34 years, 11 months and 16 days), I cannot ever recall engaging in a Walk of Shame.

  49. I can’t recall a man ever being in a position to care. Mostly, young men would just be making a mental note of an open port should he come across it in a storm.

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