Slut, the traditionally offensive, sometimes fiercely feminist word used to describe everything from Halloween costumes to unpopular female politicians, died on Tuesday. The word was 614.

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She was well-known as a star of stage, screen, and internet comments sections.

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The death was confirmed by reasonable thinking people everywhere. After a longtime battle with misogyny, she was eventually killed by outgrowing her usefulness as a descriptive term.

Slut's linguistic legacy was fraught with sexism, shame, confidence, and defiance. Her literary range was just as varied, dabbling in both children's books and an emerging progressive genre. As her friends Bitch and Ho have confirmed, Slut was everywhere.

Slut was born in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th Century as a way to describe a slovenly man whose appearance did not live up to his station. Restless and prone to attempt reinvention even then, Slut transformed her usage to that of a female slob by 1402, which quickly morphed into a sexually active woman, because obviously. This was a female word we were talking about here. The whore image was one Slut could never quite shake, despite decades of trying. Unlike her reappropriated friend Queer, whose origins had a much less negative connotation (that of literally not being straight), Slut's origins were always nothing but insults.