not quite a rant...

[ratcreature]

...but am I the only one who's somewhat put off by the whole terminology that Sweet Charity thing uses? The way they use "ho" in their slogans and frequently refer to participants as "hos", I mean. I've seen the charity auction linked on my f-list quite often, so even though I don't intend to participate I checked out the site, and their "I want to be a Charity Ho!" and so on really rubs me the wrong way.

I get that it's supposed to be a play on selling our talents to a bidder, or funny, or maybe clever for merging the old madonna-whore polarity into one "charity ho", or whatever, and that fandom appropriated related terms before, like in "pimping a fandom", which somehow doesn't bother me as much though, but still.

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[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree...It's just that clearly the folks who put it together originally were thinking about the 'ho' connection when they named the community. Sweet Charity does good work, but I can't say that I'm impressed with the terminology either.