one of the easiest ways to send me into a rage blackout is to start slut shaming anyone.
our society has incredibly dysfunctional, scary, and repressive ways of approaching sexuality, especially female sexuality. if we dare to step outside those narrowly defined boundaries, society finds it completely acceptable to hurl words like “slut” and “whore” at us. we’re called sluts for endless reasons: our hair is too big, our nails are too red, we wear too much glitter, our skirts are too short, we look like we may enjoy giving blow jobs, we dance too suggestively, our sense is humor is too raunchy, we like casual sex, we talk about sex, we’re not ashamed of our breasts and vaginas…the list could go on for ever. we all know a lot of men who hate women, and will find any excuse to brand women as sluts.
but there are far too many women who openly buy into those standards and hyper-judge other women.
the other day, i read a cc article giving advice on how to be sexy and not whorey. this attitude merely perpetuates the idea that women can’t openly enjoy sex. indicating you enjoy sex doesn’t mean you want to have sex with everyone, and it certainly doesn’t mean you’re reckless and riddled with sexually transmitted diseases. (sidebar: 80 percent of sexually active adults will contract at least one std in their lifetime, so maybe we should stop stigmatizing them). and maybe women wear high heels because they make our legs look long and give us an extra boost of fierce confidence, not because we’re walking street corners hoping to lure some sucker into paying $50 for a bj. and perhaps we wear cropped shirts because our stomachs may never be this flat and toned again, so why not relish it and show it off?
and if we meet a new love interest and we’re interested in dating/sexytimes, why wouldn’t we want to tell him (or her) the deal and get the ball rolling? personally, i hate subtlety when it comes to courtship. i don’t enjoy wasting my time trying to decipher signals. if i were talking to a guy who was being all coy and cagey and mentioned that he was hanging out with other girls and started negging me, just so i wouldn’t think that he wasn’t that interested in me? i’d strut off in my stilettos to find a guy who is not afraid to tell me he likes me, and i would definitely extend the same courtesy. life is way too short to play silly mind games, especially if you’re only playing them for fear of being labeled a slut.
in my dream world, loaded terms like “slut” and “whore” would be completely eradicated from our vocabularies. they only exist to stifle brazen female expressions of sexuality (it’s telling that there are no equivalent words in the english language to describe male behavior). society has been trying to silence and suppress women for ages, and there is no reason for women to continue to perpetuate this cycle. it’s time that we all embrace the fact that some women are loud, unashamed, and don’t give a fuck. teases and sluts and prudes and everyone in-between should all be able to co-exist free from the catty remarks of other women. let’s leave the misogyny to the crappy, clueless, insensitive guys out there.
found @. i would've loved to have written my own but there's just no way i could've topped this.
