Slut Shaming Research Paper

While I believe that reclaiming sexually pejorative words may lead to positive outcomes such as a heightened sense of sexual empowerment; I don’t believe that the process is particularly effective in combating the core issues behind slut shaming. In fact, we learned in Lecture 14, that the resignification of words like “slut” has limited benefits. Although true that due to the resignification process, the word may now have some positive connotations and does not generate the same degree of policing that it once had, the process has not eliminated the sexual double standard nor the consequences of female sexual agency.
I believe that the reason is because slut shaming does not exist merely because there are colorful words and expressions to