Why We Need to Stop Using the Phrase ‘Walk of Shame’
Slang
Elizabeth Banks stars as a woman who has to traverse a city after losing her wallet post-one-night stand. The movie is probably entertaining fluff. The phrase is far more damaging.
You know that a bit of street slang has become universally understood when it makes the leap into the title of a throwaway rom-com starring a strikingly beautiful woman we know is “quirky” because she stumbles a lot.
