Amy Alkon
2007-02-23 00:08:00
Daily newspapers are among the prissiest about language. Just this week, for my syndicated newspaper column, my editor told me I had to come up with a substitution for “screwed.” Meanwhile, newspapers are all whining about attracting younger readers, and kids are teabagging on the playground.
Here’s the original:
If you’re sleeping with somebody who quibbles about going halfsies on birth control, you aren’t having sex, you’re getting screwed.
Shocking, simply shocking filth.
And here’s my replacement:
If you’re sleeping with somebody who quibbles about going halfsies on birth control, you aren’t in a partnership, you’re having an extended bar fling.
