Bad Girls speak

[Jonathan Lighter]

Time for an update on sociolinguistic items exposed to the cable audience by
the young ladies of The Bad Girls Club.  Few are brand-new, but the
"reality" element of the show, at least insofar as the dialogue is
concerned, shows these and similar utterances are "out there."  All the
speakers are women.

"Kendra sets her sights on a sexy new boy toy."  (Not a younger man
regularly "dated" by an older woman, just a casual boyfriend/ sex partner.
The narrator is the speaker.)

"I wouldn't eat anyone's box!"

"Please let Annie grow some freakin' balls and do something about Natalie
bothering her."

"You either lick the cooter or stick the cooter." (You can't be bisexual.)

"You should square up with Angel. Hear his side of the story." (App.,
be candid or forthcoming.)

"My coochie is all shaved."

Sociologists: At one point they playfully try to get Kendra's new boy toy
to demonstrate inflatable masturbation animals brought from the sex toy
convention.

Folklorists & Freudians: At Speed Dating, Natalie asks prospective
boyfriends, without introductory context, "Which do you think is more
important? The size of the boat, or the motion of the ocean?"  As she
explains to her mansionmates later, "If he says the size of the boat, it
means he has a tiny penis."

Google Groups has the question from 1994, but a (very) cursory search
doesn't find any exx. of Natalie's depth-psychology analysis.  There must be
some though.

JL


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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