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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.144.35.117 |
1 - the cop assigned to wait outside the potential victim's house. 2 - The camera person in any found footage film 3 - the as yet unknown ensign assigned to the ground party in any science fiction franchise... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
4 - the slut anytime a grisly slasher is on the loose 5 - the guy currently doing the slut anytime a grisly slasher is on the loose | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55 |
6 - the guy who just left for help and said he'd be right back... "Do not open the door to anyone!" | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.30.199.10 |
Why is a sexually active woman a 'slut' but a sexually active man is is a 'guy'? Though to be fair the problem is the genre's mentality. It's rather like the way in rock music, a man who does drugs is a shamanic visionary, but a woman who does drugs is an unhygienic mess. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.60.39 |
7 - The only Engineer left alive going after the slut who got away. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Agreed, Joel. When I meet a sexually active woman who combines it with honesty (if they're just looking a shag), wit, kindness and a heart I always congratulate her on her choice and on her humanity and on her personal strength of character. Sex is free and what any person chooses to do with their body is nobody else's fucking business - except the person they're... you get the picture. The most pathetic creatures on God's earth are those men who feel they have to impose their sexuality on someone they are in a position of power over (maybe there are women like that too... and if so, let me know where, please). Whether that be a physical or mental imposition or even dictated by the false logic of economics. Sorry, but I'm still reeling from seeing 'Les Miserables' last night and feeling a bit disgusted at the majority of the human race and rather in love with the strong minority. The truly strong minority. You all know what I mean... Vive La Revolution!!!! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.19.226 |
8 - Anyone played by Elisha Cook Jr. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I think it reflects the continuing power difference between men and woman (which is partly about physical strength and partly about cultural validation) that sexually predatory women are not often seen as a threat by men (the only perceived danger usually being that of embarrassment). In any relationship where one partner dominates another, there's an obvious difference between the consensual and the coercive. Needless to say, a woman can't rape a man except by proxy (e.g. with a blunt instrument). And those men who are forced into sex by women, by whatever means, are still less likely to talk about it than the much greater number of women forced into sex by men. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Bloody hell, man! Have you never been stripping off about to shag a woman and have her say, "You know I'm very demanding in bed!". Now that's a statement of power and it takes a real man, like Conan (my hero), to rise to it! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.239.243.203 |
I've been wracking my brain trying to think what the male equivalent of a slut is but I honestly can't think of a specific perjorative word for a man who sleeps around. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.59.115.60 |
Bloody hell, man! Have you never been stripping off about to shag a woman and have her say, "You know I'm very demanding in bed!". I'll be very interested to read Joel's answer to this...  | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 80.5.8.49 |
The poor sap who is the boyfriend at the BEGINNING of the RomCom... The soldier who shows a photograph of his sweetheart to a comrade... A generic guest at any posh party or soiree in a Bruce Willis film... ...and there is no such thing as a slut. Cheers Terry | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 80.5.8.49 |
Oh, and the person who knows better than Willis/Stallone/Cage et al, doesn't know why he/she should listen to them anyway, is tired of waiting for help to arrive and is going to get out of here now! | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.61.54 |
The closest thing to an male equivalent for a slut would a pick-up artist, I think, though the negative views of them seem to be based more on their manipulative behaviour than just a desire for casual sex. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hey, just for clarity, I was sticking to the horror film world's view of such things—they portray "sluts" getting (*ahem*) whacked; to enhance the joke, I chose to make the next an innocent man by calling him "guy," then pairing him with the slut, for maximum laugh-age. There, you just saw sausage, or shit, being made—resluts may vary.  | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 213.106.77.123 |
The fatherly, war-weary veteran with just one more mission to complete before he goes home. And the main character's fiance(e.) With very few exceptions, they're usually dead or dumped by the final reel. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
The "seen it all" veteran cop partnering the gormless rookie with only two weeks to go before his big retirement party. Any of "Dirty" Harry Callahan's partners. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 80.5.8.49 |
The by-the-book superior who has finaly had enough of the maverick's insubordination and crazy theories. The best looking girl/cheerleader, homecoming queen (whatever one of those is)in the high school The FIRST woman to take a shower in the hotel. This is fun. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
The first person the cops try to question who actually knows something... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
The man or woman who halfway through the film has some vital information s/he must—at some remote location, to boot—alone impart to the detective/lead investigator.... | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 80.5.8.49 |
The first wife of a lonely, hard-bitten maverick cop Any highly-trained professional member of the best sports team in the country who are drawn against a team of no-hopers | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
The dog, in a non-comedy about that dog. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.55.108 |
Anyone played by Sean Bean in a non-lead role. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.30.194.81 |
Stevie – no, I've not been told anything like that by a woman or by a man. My loss, undoubtedly. But saying "I'm very demanding" is not the same as imposing sex on an unwilling victim. Probably the reverse. Again, there are welcome and unwelcome forms of domination for many people. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.239.242.220 |
The family pet in just about every horror film... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Ned Beatty in Deliverance. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55 |
Any character played by Paul Newman in the 60s. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 31.54.187.136 |
The first person to find that meteorite... | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 31.54.187.136 |
Or the one with the line 'Hello! Who's there?' | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
John Travolta in the first half of Pulp Fiction. |