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Old 08-29-2021, 11:12 AM   #427 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station View Post
Meaning is subjective. It depends on what an individual has in mind, how the individual is thinking about the term in question. There's no necessary way to think about a term, positive, negative, or whatever.
Based on information from interviews, books, song lyrics, articles, cultural/historical context etc. I see little reason to assume Frank Zappa had a subjective interpretation without negative connotation for the word "slut".

I've provided several arguments and also a few sources to support this, among them the account of his secretary who seem to say that Frank Zappa and The Mothers had a double standard, one in which sleeping around was okay/encouraged for guys, but seen as a negative for girls.

If you want to argue that Frank had a more special and less negative connotation in mind, perhaps you should also present some evidence to support that.
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