Flappers have their own language — an elaborate language of their own in which the word “flappy” is the perfect example of one of these elaborate language. While it is important that we distinguish the term “flapper,” from its more usual, non-flowery, usage, I also want to point out that the word is not a verb, like when people say, “I can fly.” It is an adjective which I will use to describe a particular kind of flapper and an expression of the power of flappers.
In the 1950s, the term “flapper” was used by flappers to identify a type of woman who dressed in a flirty or sexual way and who danced and pranced in public. The term is still used today by people who like to dress flirty, as when flappers in a club dress up in the sexiest clothes. Flappers had a flair which was sexy and theatrical. They played dress-up in the fashion of the times, and were often dressed up and in sexually provocative acts with other flappers.
Flapper is not a good word in its original usage. It is slang for a prostitute, and it is also slang used by young people to describe attractive girls. So flappers became slang for girls who danced and pranced in public.
Many flappers used flappers as a substitute for their words “girl, woman, slut.”
In the 1960s during the height of the “Sex Pistols” movement, which aimed to turn youth into sex-obsessed revolutionaries, flappers’ association with the word flaps was used to help create a new political movement and “out” the flappers.
The “SX” movement was a reaction to this association by the young women and girls of the late 1950s and early 1960s. During “SX” the term “girl, woman” became synonymous with the sexualization of girls, and the term “blonde” became a term used exclusively by men. These two associations — “girl, woman, slut” and the sexualization of girls — were so strong in American society that the phrase “SX” was eventually applied to the entire world around us.
Many people today find flaps annoying and cringe when they hear the word “flappers.” It is true that the word is offensive. And I understand the appeal of calling someone a slut. But I would recommend that in the future we don’t call flappers “sluts.” Sl
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