CRACK WHORES

"Shut up! Oh my god, for real, like, she is such a crack whore"
                            "Mom! Stop freaking out, ugh, you are such a crack whore"
Lacey? No, she's, like, a crazy crack whore, don't invite her to the party"
                                                 "You got the same shoes as me? Crack whore!"

Can we talk about this? It's an epidemic, this constant hyperbolic vomit people spew forth for lack desire to be more specific in their generalizations. It's lazy. And what's worse? It starts to take the sting out of calling someone a "crack whore". If I were upset and my friend said "you're acting like a crack whore" I wouldn't even take offense- no, not because I get called a crack whore often, but because it's a phrase we say a lot. So much so that there's nothing provocative about it anymore. 
"Crack whore" has totally jumped the shark. 
It's the same thing that primetime network comedies did to
the term "douche bag"- it used to be a phrase for the comedy elite, now you find it in every new sitcom about "quirky 20 somethings figuring out relationships".
The severity of the what being a crack whore implies is not something that even phases us because, as a culture, we don't flinch at violence. We play Call of Duty, are able to watch the news and eat at the same time, we love violet rap lyrics we and we let the cast of Real Housewives of New Jersey roam the streets without leashes. Face it folks, we're desensitized.
Most of us have never met a crackhead.  Honestly. I mean I've seen crazy homeless people but I just assume, because I was raised in an upper middle class drug free environment, that they're just bad people who are being lazy (it's a joke, don't write me a fbook message about how your whole family is homeless)          The closest I've ever come to crack is cocaine- and even then I can't say I've been that close to it. I knew this one kid in college who didn't come from money but had a really nice apartment and a really erratic attitude in general- he was definitely on cocaine. But had I gone up to him and been like "Bobby, can you get me some crack?" He would have looked at me like I was...a crack head...and been like "What? No. What is wrong with you?"

Look, I know that there are enough crazy people in this world that, sometimes, we run out of ways to describe how crazy they are but we need to give the over usage of "crack whore" a rest because it's become meaningless.

So the next time you're out shopping with your girlfriend and you ask her
 "Do you wanna split a Pinkberry?" 
and she says yes and she go to pick out the toppings and can't decide because, gosh, she'd never thought about putting "organic fruity bears" on yogurt and she's taking forever and you blurt out "Omg, Candyce, just pick one, you're such a crackwhore"

...consider this:

A crack whore is literally a woman who has lost hope/total control of her life due to her crippling addiction to crack. Her addiction, most likely, is steeped in a deep psychological desire to feel numb/safe- perhaps the emotional ramification of being raped by either a stranger or worse, a loved one (most likely her mother's boyfriend who crawled into her bed on a nightly basis to violate her, all the while threatening that if she told anyone, he'd kill her entire family) at some point in her life. Her being raped/violated/abandoned/abused has manifested itself in a chemical desire so strong that it supersedes everything else in her life including the want to feed herself/sleep/love and function normally. She is so desperate to feed her addiction to this drug that she only engages in activities that will lead her to more crack- she literally goes and finds any man that will give her twenty dollars to let them put their penis wherever they need in her so she can then take that money and go buy crack off of anyone who will sell it to her and smoke it and try and numb the pain of being raped when she was eight.  Then, in an hour, she'll do it all over again.
OR
You can just chill out while she gets the organic fruity bears.

Posted by THATSMYNIGHTMARE at 1/13/2012 12:09 AM
Categories: SOCIETY
 

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