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Slut-shaming of Epic Proportions
I borrow the phrase “slut-shaming” from my esteemed and much admired colleague on the Tumblr feminist movement, sluthaditcoming. She chose her name, because basically all “rape prevention” geared at women, and all anti-woman legislation regarding abortion can be boiled down to one main argument: Slut had it coming.
I like sex. I have sex. Lots of it, in fact, and that’s my choice and it’s my right. And I am not a slut for it, and I am not ashamed. I use birth control religiously, and should it fail I should not be punished for having sex by carrying an unplanned pregnancy to term.
Favorite slut shaming argument of woman haters? “Close your legs until you’re ready for kids.” I don’t want kids. I have never wanted kids. Tiny feet don’t make my heart go pitter patter, I don’t like holding babies, they aren’t for me. And if I were a man saying that, no one would give me shit for it. But because I’m a woman, suddenly MY sex is all about procreating, and damn me to hell if I’m not okay with that.
Anyway, for these reasons, these people are completely repugnant. For these reasons I am naming them, and confronting them as enemies of my personhood, and enemies to women everywhere.
