We often hear that we need changes. Changes in politics, in private life – even in our wardrobes. But recent days I was thinking about changing meaning or changing a way some words are used.
Meeting my old friend made me acknowledge fact that some girls are still called sluts. That it is happening not only in american movies. And they are considered as easy ones not beacuse they actually are or they are doing stuff for money. They are slut-shaming because they like to make out with boys or girls during parties. And because they are not just pleasure seeking boys. They are girls so they must act in a way girls are pressured to act.
Some people seem not understand fact that girls, or women, do things for fun or their own pleasure – not others.
I don't deny that easy-girls exist, I just try to create a border between enjoying and being slutty.
The question is – where does fun end and being a slut start? Can we tune the definition so it matches our times? Or – for example – maybe we can stop calling girls, that fool around for their own pleasure, sluts?
Komentarze
It's interesting that an equivalent expression describing a boy doesn't seem to exist. Words like 'playboy' sound much more glamorous than 'slut' anyway.
OdpowiedzUsuńWhat I also find interesting, if not worrying, is that it's more often other girls, not boys, that use these words about their friends. So sexism is perpetuated by women too, not just by middle-aged men.