If you're demanding that the taxpayers pay for your contraception, you must use a lot of them and therefore, ergo, you're very sexually active and in the old days, what we used to call people who were in college or even graduate school who were sexually active, we called them sluts.
According to CNN, these comments mostly flew under the radar at the time—Lewis was several years away from running for Congress, after all.Lewis's past as a radio shock jock was widely known before his election to Congress. In 2016, the Atlantic called him "Minnesota's mini-Trump," noting he had claimed that taxing the rich was the modern-day equivalent of "targeting black folks" during "the time of slavery." The Atlantic reported that Democrats were relatively confident they could beat him with their candidate, former healthcare executive Angie Craig. But Lewis instead eked out a close victory, winning by less than 7,000 votes.But have we really got to the point where you can't refer to Madonna as a slut without being sued? I mean, Madonna has had a series of lovers, as have many in Hollywood. Now in the old days, what did we call this? Madonna dresses up in these sorts of prostitute-like outfits on stage, and she goes there and she sings and she shows half of her body. What did we call those people? 30 years ago? 40 years ago? 50 years ago? You can't do that today, it's too politically incorrect?