[identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Deciding women are sluts based on their body art is icky.

Calling lower-back tattoos "tramp stamps"? Icky *and* sexist.

Deciding that an "unattractive" woman with a lower-back tattoo is so obviously a slut that your friend wins the argument about how they are indicators of sluttiness? Icky, sexist, and something I can only imagine a hetboy even doing.

[identity profile] inferno0069.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I usually feel that way about gaydar, then have to face the fact that (some people's) gaydar actually works.

At the moment, I don't even know where I stand on this stuff.
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[identity profile] sogwife.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and: "...something I can only imagine a hetboy even doing."

I see gay men, and occasionally lesbians, portrayed in exactly this behavior all the time on tv.

[identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
My feelings are hurt, so I'm gonna skip this for now.
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[identity profile] vito-excalibur.livejournal.com 2007-09-08 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's obnoxious.

(Full disclosure: I have called a lower back tattoo a tramp stamp, but it was on a guy, and I just think it's funny, not that it actually says anything about his sex life.)

[identity profile] cassidyrose.livejournal.com 2007-09-10 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Icky, sexist, and something I can only imagine a hetboy even doing.

Really? Because I have known countless het and bi women who talk about other women this way. And I'm not talking just in high school, I mean bona fide adult women trash-talking other women based on appearance and perceived and/or actual sexual behavior. Not to mention many, many gay and bi men. I have encountered many gay men who felt it their entitlement to comment on the appearance and perceived sexual activity of random women just because.

I'm not arguing that many het men don't talk the way Wheaton did in his blog. They do. But so do many women (of various orientations) and non-het men. At least in my experience.