Daydream Nation - A Confrontation Over Name-Calling
Jenny: [seeing Caroline in the restroom]
Ugh, slut.
Caroline:
What'd you call me?
Jenny:
I think I just called you a slut, slut.
Caroline:
Why?
Jenny:
Because everyone knows you've banged, like, forty different guys since you came here.
Caroline:
Really? Forty? Okay, let's just say I have banged forty guys. What's the problem? You're just jealous cause you've been, uh... brainwashed by puritanical assholes who believe sex is a sin. Then again, your, uh, little... gerbil-sized brain has been reprogrammed by the media to believe sex is the be-all, end-all. So now you're stuck, right? Cause on one hand, you love to fuck, but afterwards you feel overwhelmed by guilt and you're not sure why. Maybe it's because sex is neither as good or as evil as you've built it up to be.
Jenny: [hurt pause]
Shut up, slut!
Caroline:
Jenny...! Seriously. Listen to me. The highlight of your entire life... is gonna be your yearbook photo. You are already nostalgic for shit that has not even happened yet, cause you have so precious little to look forward to. You're gonna spend the first half of your life planning your wedding, you're gonna spend the second half regretting it. And if I were you—and thank God I'm not cause you have terrible hair—I would stop and I would reconsider your whole value system, because everything you know... is wrong.
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