Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who are perceived to violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. Examples of slut-shaming include being criticized or punished for: violating dress code policies by dressing in perceived sexually provocative ways; requesting access to birth control ; [5] [6] [7] having premarital , casual , or promiscuous sex; or engaging in prostitution. Slut-shaming involves criticizing women for their transgression of accepted codes of sexual conduct, [12] i. Slut-shaming is used by men and women. This is done by stating the crime was caused either in part or in full by the woman wearing revealing clothing or acting in a sexually provocative manner, before refusing consent to sex, [10] thereby absolving the perpetrator of guilt. Sexually lenient individuals can be at risk of social isolation. The action of slut-shaming can be considered to be a form of social punishment and is an aspect of sexism , as well as female intrasexual competition. The social movement falls into the category of feminism.
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Leora Tanenbaum wants you to stop using the word "slut. Her latest book, I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet , is a deep dive into how online culture and social media have reshaped the landscape for girls and young women. Young women today, she says, are more likely than ever to be called "sluts," and to live in the gray zone of wanting to be sexy but being punished if they're seen as too slutty. And all of that is exacerbated in an environment where there's always a cellphone camera on hand, and harassment can be conducted anonymously online. Tanenbaum talked to Cosmopolitan. Why this topic and this book now? In the s, I interviewed 50 girls and women who had been labeled "sluts," or a synonym like "ho. The thing that motivated me to go back to this issue is that slut-bashing still exists, but when I looked around a few years ago, I realized there's something else going on too, and that's slut-shaming. What's the difference between slut-bashing and slut-shaming? Slut-bashing, as I use the term, refers to repeated acts of harassment, usually verbal, that is conducted by peers, and it's hostile and malicious, in which a teenage girl is targeted and labeled "the slut" or "the ho.
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I've been going to the same camp since fifth grade. My friends and I were considered the "second cool bunk" —- the quirky girls, mostly from New York who didn't really hang out with the boys that much. The "first tier" girls were the hot girls. They were more sexually promiscuous and super cliquey.
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