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more about #mistress Crackers in Bed: When I was at the airport the other day, some Fox News crap was on, and an entire panel of people were talking about how Tiger was obviously a sex add... more » Baroness: I always liked, "Demimondaine", that class of Parisian mistresses kept in high style and described by Proust. But the translation of "half world", a... more » samethingwedoeverynightpinky: I prefer the term paramour. more » PhDelish: On another note...I think we could all agree that Tiger Woods should never have gotten married. If you know you're that much of a player, why go and d... more » BetteD: Is "Prostitution Whore" too passe at this point? more » funzette: News of the 11th Tiger Mistress The tabloids sent to me! He had: Eleven pimpers pimping, Ten lawyers billing, Nine ladies dancing, Eight barmaids ... more » Diadorina: I believe we should call the women who slept with him by their name. As in "That cheater slept with Rachel and Jaimee and used no condom." more » LazyHippo: Here in Britain tart or totty would be the words. more » Flackette Goes Retro: I propose "golf moll." more » sequined: Dalliances! They are dalliances! Please please please can we call them dalliances? more » EarlyGrey: I'm ok with calling women who (knowingly) sleep with married men "assholes." more » I, Zombie Normal: Am I the only one who gets this image when thinking of the word "mistress?" more » mbprice: Also, I kind of love "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime We would sit down... more » flaxen_vixen: BTW, if I were to cheat on my (currently fictional) husband. What would the object of my desires be called? Mister just doesn't work. Lover works bu... more » snugbug: This is interesting, etymologically, because "mistress" is derived from the French maîtresse. Though in contemporary French it also means "mistress,"... more » mbprice: Whoreslutfloozieskanks, obviously. more » SarahMC: I never thought about Tiger Woods much before. Figured he was probably OK. I think cheating once COULD be a forgivable offense, depending on the sit... more » funnyface: I propose "extramarital sex partners" for Tiger's ladyfriends. more » la.donna.pietra: My grandma would call them "floozies," but that might be a tad judgmental. more » FroderickFronkensteen: What do we call the men that women cheat with? "Misters" is kind of a cop-out, yes? It's basically just calling them "dudes." more » -
#mistressdistress
A Mistress By Any Other Name: Tiger Woods And The Language Of Cheating
Slate's Jesse Sheidlower argues that we shouldn't call the women Tiger Woods slept with "mistresses" — so what's to become of this rather well-behaved word for bad behavior?
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#crappyhour
You Can't Make It Up: John Ensign's Mommy Paid Off His Mistress
In this extra-special edition of Crappy Hour, we - and by "we" I mean me myself and I - discuss John Ensign's Oedipal issues, sympathy for the devil (Palin, obviously), sex dreams, Iran, masturbation, Howard Dean and Roland Burris. More » -
#theendoftheaffair
Mistress Takes Revenge On Man Who "Fired" Her
A married Chinese businessman's plan to hold a contest between his five mistresses to decide which one to "keep" backfired when one of the eliminated women drove him off a cliff. More »
