Slut

In Gina Frangello’s book, Slut Lullabies, her stories give many examples of the gender roles and stereotypes of women. In “Saving Crystal”, Crystal and Jenna’s fathers relationship represents the stereotypical gender roles of man and wife. Jenny also uses her sexuality to bribe her teacher. Gina Frangello shows the strength of women in her short story Slut Lullabies. She is able to show us the power of women and how the main character is able to push past any challenge, as well as many…

hatred. Many women have become subject to this hatred through social media based slut shaming. There are even specific websites designated for slut shaming. Women are targeted on these sites for sexual choices that men make every day. These sites are meant to belittle women and through this belittling cause women to change their lifestyles. These types of sites encourage common stereotypical ideas within society. Slut shaming sites tell women to be ashamed of their personal sexual…

SlutWalk movement began in Toronto, Canada in 2011 as a demonstration against the idea that women who dress like sluts, i.e. too sexy, revealing, or provocatively, are inviting men to rape them (Schutte, 2012, 116-118). It was founded by a group of female students at York University in response to a police officer’s statement that “if women want to avoid rape, they shouldn’t dress like ‘sluts,’” and has evolved into a global movement with “Sibling” walks planned in over 75 cities around the…

with sexual messages everyday, and suggests that "The intention [of showing sexual messages] is clearly to bring up... sexual desire”. (Stossel) These messages are not helping the men and women in our culture, but instead creating bigger problems. Slut Shaming and Rape culture are two…

peers, she is called a “slut” or…

popularity of choker has risen throughout the month and brought a lot of attention to if wearing a choker makes you different than the average person. There are many stereotypes speculating that female who wear chokers (especially black colored) are “slut” or do prostitution. Some people argue that choker resembles a collar used for animals like dogs. So are…

experience the world on their own terms the media trashes them and slut shames them. Sex is a natural part of life and now-a-day’s people are getting married later in life and it is unrealistic to expect all women to wait until marriage to have sex. Whether a women is having sex or practicing abstinence is nobody’s business but her own and no one has the right to judge her. For some reason whenever women have sex people assume that she is now a slut because if she did it once there is nothing…

For as long as women have been depicted in the arts, holy texts, and so on and so forth, an image has prevailed over most others, the depiction of the fallen woman, the mistress, the slut, etc. Despite the many forms this portrayal has assumed over time, it cannot be debated that to this day there remains the idea that a woman can behave in a “disagreeable” manner that society may look down upon her sexuality, faith, activities, etc, with scolding eyes and flaming tongues. In the case of Etta…

Useful Advice for a Daughter or No? You Decide. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a poem with a universal theme that speaks to the relationships between mothers and daughters. This poem reflects the author’s own childhood and the culture in which she was raised. The mother imparts advice and wisdom to her young daughter about growing up and becoming a woman. Although, the advice the mother gives to her daughter could be applicable, some may perceive it to be very generalized and judgemental. In the…

Slut shaming is society wide problem of both genders putting down women for expressing their sexuality in a way that we don’t like or approve of. ‘Slut’ is a word used to silence and attack women. There’s many ways sluts are described, as women who have a lot of or too much sex, they don’t respect themselves, they are stupid “it takes logic to decide to be with one person”. There are a lot of myths and excuses as to why sluts are deemed to have a different status…