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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Pixies_Girl on 2026-07-29 11:02:22+00:00.

For context: my country isn’t a native English speaking country but the interview itself was conducted mostly in English. I’m not a native English speaker myself so I had some trouble translating the answer to the interview questions in my head from my native language to English.

Basically, I had an internship interview at a BigLaw lawfirm in my country. Midway through the interview, one of the interviewer (there were 2) asked me about my time advocating for womens rights through one of the organizations I joined in my faculty. I explained to him about my time and then he asked me about what issues I was campaigning for and why it was important basically.

I told him it was about online gender based violence and proceeded to explain to him about it.

During said explanation, one of the things that I tried communicating is that men in my country still tended to treat victims (women in this context) of sexual violence as “sluts” and impure so thats why we need to combat it. The problem is that I couldn’t think about how I could phrase it without using the expletive “slut”.

I literally stopped in the middle of my sentence for a good 5-10 seconds trying to think of a better word (my interviewer even asked me whether I wanted to explain it in my native language). I ended up just fucking winging it and used my native languages term for “slut” as I literally couldn’t think of anything else that has the same implication as said term.

Now I’m really regretting using that term as I really wanted the internship at said BigLaw law firm. I’m really scared that my use of the word slut just tanked my chances to getting that internship.

TL;DR: Using the word “slut” because I couldn’t think of a better word most likely just tanked my internship interview.