But again how important scope and context are even in the examples you are giving? I think your examples of the fallen politicians Divorced woman looking porno dating african american dating are especially notable, because what they all did was break down the siloing that opponents of freedom set up (we're different than them we're out here in this good silo and they're over there in the bad one). It showed that there is more crossover than people admit, that the "good" people were just the same. And the activists who protested because they had AIDS were an in your face accusation "you think you're a good person, but you would let me die just because you don't like who I am." what I mean? That breaks down barriers because it shows that they're fake. And being a slut in your local community, where people know who you are, and they know about your sluttiness but also all the other things about you, like that you work at the shelter or you treat your dog well or that you make a killer pie and give money to homeless dudes, that also breaks down barriers, because it removes the foreignness of the thing. It's much harder to spit in a friend's eye than in a stranger's eye. But performing the existing negative expectations of who or what people are to a bunch of strangers, while claiming that it represents the "Real" thing (as though we were a specimen to be put in a jar and studied), does not break down those barriers, it reinforces them. So in that sense in the very real, historical self-righteous sense in which the word slut could be used to denote someone who we would never be perishthethought in that sense of the word, I fail to how the new L word thing is showing anything different than that. It's a throwback.