I have seen "ho" used in various contexts that seem to have a
"positive" slant. In my view, it tends to mean something towards
"dedicated".
And so... these girls were.... Baset ball Ho's?
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I did not intend to imply that Ho means dedicated in all
circumstances. I was just pondering on the tanget that Ho's can in
some circumstances mean something not totally negative.
But some athletes can be very ho -like. totally one-pointed,
one-dimensional towards their sport. Dominated by it. Abused by it.
Getting cheap thrills from it. Getting glitter and glam from it. I am
not imply the rutgers team is like this. I know little about them.
We were mostly all TM hos at one point. Dedicated. Willing to
sacrafice a lot for it. And perhaps we felt a bit ho like in the end
-- used, abused, degraded and feeling like an outsider to mainstream
society.
Some took their $500,000 of spiritual earnings from their TMO -ho days
and built a better life than they could have without those spiritual /
life-lesson "earnings".
Some became toothless, pale, withered addicts, sitting stooped at the
entrance of the dome-crack-house, selling everything to get that next
movement fix.
A surprising number didn't make it too far. As MMY said, "some will
conquer the world, and for some, the world will conquer them".
And some took up a great crusade, denouncing ho-ism in extreme detail
and lamguage. Perhaps as a path towards self-percieved redemption.
And some glory in those heady days of ho dom -- but have moved on.
