Boycott may have batted on water but wasn't he also arrested and found guilty for batt(er)ing his girlfriend in France back in 1996? Not a good example to stand up for is he (though I do recognise you were obviously just joking about the use of the word 'boycott')?

As this thread is showing, and the actions of others elswhere, the days of some men being able to trash women and get away with it are severely numbered. Good people will no longer stand idly by and watch it happen especially when someone is in the public domain thinks they are invincible and able to get away with it.

If the good folk of this thread are anything to go by then then that 'man's' future is very uncertain. Slut or whore (words initiated by men against women in the first place) are labels earned in the face of great personal cost and tragedy often. That a man would use such a term against a woman says far more about him than it does her in any circumstance.

You are good people on this thread and have brought me out of silence to say something. Thanks for taking a stand :-)

mauve