Showing posts with label slut-shaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slut-shaming. Show all posts

Monday, 23 September 2013

Easy A



Easy A (2010) is a film about a girl who pretends to have sex with a homosexual boy in order to stop him from being bullied and get others to treat him with more respect. However, when the whole school finds out, more and more people ask her to pretend to have sex with them and they give her gift vouchers. The student body thinks of her as a 'dirty skank' and as seen in the clip, she is given many disgusted looks from other girls whilst the boys drool over her.
In the clip, Olive (Emma Stone) is called a dirty skank by her best friend because she 'slept' with multiple boys and she tells Olive that that is what everyone is calling her. This is a prime example of what happens in schools and in the world because women can not have sex with anyone without gaining a bad reputation. As seen in Easy A, many people (mostly girls) look down on Olive because of her reputation; giving her disgusted looks and scoffing her.  
However, the boys don't get shamed in the same way because it is socially acceptable for them to have sex with a girl- it even boosts their reputation. Even though they took part in the same activity as Olive, they are treated much better and with a lot of respect unlike her. 






Why does she get called these names just for having sex with some boys?

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

He's a Stud, She's a Slut

"Outside of the feminist implications of the sexual double standard, the slut/stud conundrum has always been my favorite because it just makes no sense logically. Why is a woman less of a person, or (my favorite) "dirty," because she has sex?"


Excerpted from He's a Stud, She's a Slut by Jessica Valenti.

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Sunday, 15 September 2013

Miley Cyrus + Slut-Shaming


"It seems that we still can't handle what it's like for a young woman to be able to perform, as she chooses, without layering in a heavy helping of insults as well. While Cyrus was condemned for grinding on Thicke, very little criticism has been laid on the singer himself for his role in the performance. The nastiest of the comments have implied that Cyrus is somehow diseased because of her preferred dance methods."


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