SWUGs: Are Senior Girls "Washed Up"?
Senior Washed Up Girls (or SWUGs) is a term that has become popular amongst students, used to described young women reaching the end of their college careers.
You read that right: college seniors are “washed up” and too old in comparison to younger classmates. A recent an article in Yale Daily News the from a self-proclaimed SWUG has stirred up a lot of discussion about this controversial term.
The piece that ran in the student paper chronicled the misfortune of being a SWUG. It included commentary from these Ivy league students including a sophomore boy who said,
“It’s a girl who has been through the meat grinder. A seasoned veteran who knows the ropes.”
The term SWUG started as a tongue-in-cheek joke poking fun at the many expectations that are placed on women and an unwillingness to allow those expectations to dictate their lives any longer. A SWUG is a young woman that no longer enjoys the game of dressing up and hitting frat row on a Friday night but would rather stay in her sweatpants and drink boxed wine while marathoning her roommate’s Sex and the City DVD collection. It’s only humorous because they are not washed up — not even close. Rather, their lives are just beginning. The term was meant to be self-deprecating, a nod to their growing maturity and looming graduation right around the corner.
Somehow the term got spun around in the recent article from Raisa Bruner at Yale into something that now means a senior girl who the guys don’t want to date because they would rather date the freshman...
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