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Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
11. Word usage and meaning evolves, as all things do.
Thu Apr 14, 2016, 03:46 PM
Apr 2016

It doesn't matter if the word wasn't meant to apply to men, as well as women. The reality is that since the 90s, the word whore has had a far broader application across the gender spectrum... to the point where it's not a gender specific term any longer... except, perhaps, to those who cannot seem to escape the past.

political whore

A politician who will sell out their constituents if it means they might get one step higher on the ladder. They will completely flip-flop on an issue that was the core of their campaign platform just because they think it might help them get elected to, for instance, Lake Forest City Council. They will even sell out the person who threw them proxies to get them into office. They become so "whoreish" that in the end, they are so slutty and nasty that nobody will touch them with a ten foot ballot.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political+whore

You don't have to like the word, but it's gonna get used... you'll have to cope with it.
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