December 05, 2003

Jessa Crispin, Bookslut, doesn't appreciate being called a drunken slut, apparently. In a recent column in the Austin Chronicle, Shaun Badgley mentioned that the well-known Bookslut had spent a night on his couch after getting drunk. She's taken offense to that: Last I checked, calling someone a drunken slut, whether or not she is one, was frowned upon. In other news, those who don't know about her website probably should.

[Via Neil Gaiman's blog.]

posted by tracicle 20 years ago
  • I'm kind of appalled at how far the mudslinging has gone. I love Bookslut and all this has been a disappointment to me. I think it would have been far more classy to ignore it. (Why does that sound familiar?) In other news, there's nothing wrong with being a drunken slut--not that she is. It reminds of me a dear friend whose boyfriend called her a humiliating drunken slut (although she doesn't even approach it) the night he broke up with her and she came to me the next day in tears saying, "And I don't even know why I'm upset he called me a slut. There's nothing wrong with that!" Amen.
  • Embrace your inner SLUT!
  • No, seriously, I don't mind being called any number of names or insults. What get's me in this day and age is the lack of imagination. I was but a wee young slut when I was backing out of a parking space in my new Jeep Cherokee. There were two women about 24ish walking up as I did this. And one turned to me to say "Watch out Fatso." I was so stunned that anyone above age 6 would use that term that I poked my head out the window and asked if I that was the best she could come up with. Call me darned near anything, but have some imagination, hey?
  • Lesbians, sluts - is this turning into SexFilter? I use to read Bookslut quite a lot. I haven't been in ages though - thanks for the reminder that it exists.
  • We can only hope, dng.. we can only hope. Monkeyfilter: Do it like a monkey.
  • For pure accuracy, and maximum entertainment value, as well as avoiding the inevitable shitstorm of outrage, I would've referred to her as a drunken bookslut.
  • Actually, from reading the original article, he didn't call her a drunken slut. She is referred to once as "the BookSlut", and then he simply regales with the tale of how she woke up one morning after crashing out on his couch drunk. Now.. if he HAD have said "you're a drunken slut" in his article, fair play to her. But c'mon. Get over yourself already, girl.
  • Yeah, I realise he didn't call her a "drunken slut" verbatim, but I figured the explanation would possibly fill up the entire front page. And I'm happy to be a slut, as long as I don't have to like that awful Christina Aguilera/Lil' Kim song as well.
  • I wasn't aware of the chronicle/bookslut flap until i was reading today's issue's letters to the editor where there was a note from someone spanking the chronicle for running the article. [about 1/3 of the way down]. I hadn't been to bookslut in a long time [or the book reviews in the chronicle -- jessa does have a point about it being weak], but it all made for a good laugh. She obviously hated this town and did not mince words in her response to the chronicle. But, she really --as coriolisdave suggests-- get over herself. Sure, Austin is not the literary town she'd like, but it doesn't suck. I'm sure she'll never find that place.
  • Spanking the chronicle. Nice.
  • I'd like to state that I am totally pro-slut.
  • I'd like to state that I'm a totally pro(fessional) slut!