#slutshamming

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My friend is such an icon 

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One of my friends on Facebook, shared this article. And holy mother of god. This article is completely laughable and I’m honestly scared that there are women out in the world that actually believe this. 

This is an actual passage from said article: 

“If they go to college, they are unlikely to stay home raising their children to pay off the debt and use the degree they spent years on.” (I have seen this in many young women’s lives, sadly.)

“The husband will need to take years teaching his wife the correct way to act, think, and live since college taught them every possible way that is wrong.” (Sadly, most young Christian women wouldn’t listen to their husbands since they’ve not been taught to live in submission to their husbands. However, it’s the older women who are called to teach the younger women biblical womanhood and most husbands have never seen it modeled in their lives so they wouldn’t know what to teach.)” 

Here is the article

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Earlier this month, former police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was, to my surprise, convicted of raping several black women. Following this trial via twitter has been tumultuous for me. Tumultuous, roc…

This article discusses how rape culture affects “the most disenfranchised in society,” black women. Black women are targeted, chastised and belittled by not only men of all races, but by women as well. De La Fro discusses how black women are discredited and subsequently indicating that black women do not get raped, they lie for attention or to seem like less of a ‘hoe’. This belief opens up the doors for men to prey on black women, since no one would believe them.

As the title indicates, the issues raised in this article is rape culture and the way is affects black women. A non-black police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, targeted sex working and drug addicted black women to attack since they were not “respected in society.” When he was arrested, charged, and sentenced for the crimes, Black men seems happy but their motives were unclear. Were they happy that he was convicted for harming black women, or simply because he was a “non-black police officer”? In Lecture 7.1, we are instructed to refer to victims as survivors in our discussion. Most black women, however, are not afforded that opportunity. They are labeled through slut-shaming and discredited as an honest accuser. Black women are often subject to names such as ‘thot’, ‘fast’, or ‘trying to be grown’ when they are sexually active, especially at a relatively young age. When women make a claim of rape or sexual assault, their word is likely discredited due to the name they have accrued from black men and women or are accused of lying for “attention.” This article intersectionally captures the ways in which rape culture and racially charged beliefs affect women of color. Women of color are more susceptible to sexual violence and less likely to be believed when they file police reports or testify. Part of this also has to do with the sexuality politics we discussed in Lecture 5. The way women are viewed for their sexual acts, unwilling or willing, seem to follow sexual scripts that seem to place blame on the survivor.

Another article that may assist in the understanding modern slut-shaming is Every 10 seconds, someone on Twitter calls a woman a ‘slut’ or ‘whore’ by Caitlin Dewey. It discusses new results that on Twitter, about 6.6 tweets are made contain slut or whore every minute. While the article does not explore all the implications of these occurrences, it does highlight the misogyny and bigotry women face every day on social media, and how twitter is protecting select women through there ‘quality filter.’

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/26/every-10-seconds-someone-on-twitter-calls-a-woman-a-slut-or-whore/)

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[superrman]

You know what is great about the shadowhunters series; slutshaming is showing in the narrative to be negative. Shows often slut shame there female leads but in shadowhunters its shown to be negative, that critiquing Isabelle based on her appearance and her sex life like that is wrong - it is done by a person we are not supposed to trust and or when others do it they are called out on there negative behavior- I’m not saying its perfect but hopefully the show will prove that a women can be sexual and still be strong and that Izzy’s arc will reflect her coming into her own while still maintaining her sexuality and proving her mother and anyone else who doubts her wrong. 

[mapulwicche]

i have no time for slut shaming. i especially have no time for slut shaming young teenagers who's adult male figures have called them slurs since they were little.

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