There is something missing in what I have heard and read...well, gee these women are obviously scholars and athletes so obviously it is incorrect to call them that...yeah...well, it is bad to call anyone that, including women who might be doing that to make money. They have lives of horror, beatings, risk of disease..make that guarantee of disease...disgusting men....it's not a life that should be made fun of or used to intimidate or insult other women with...and what it has done to the athletes is the tip of the iceberg...what it does to young teens and children is the worst of it. What it does to older people of a more respectable behavioral mindset having to hear that sort of thing on the bus, in public spaces, on public airways is horrible.

I am all for stifling free speech in this case and others I can think of. I think there should be laws, and when there are, people like Imus should be fired. For now let him twist in the wind. This is a phrase, or a word, that should be cut out of polite society forever and no apologies or explanations made for its use...mg