What is "slut shaming" and why is it wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't disagree more. No one should be criticized for how much sex they have or don't have. The sex lives of others is NONE of your business. If my high school daughter is having sex with her boyfriend or with 5 guys, it's none of your business.

It's not about "celebrating." It's about people minding their own business.

I'm going to disagree with you in the context of this discussion. If we're talking about the "boy crazy clique" in HS- girls who brag about their sex lives and very openly discuss who they've slept with to my 14 yo daughter- then it becomes her business and my business. I've been posting in this thread as anti-slut shaming. But you can't bitch about a lack of privacy when many girls forfeit that right by making their behavior well known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't disagree more. No one should be criticized for how much sex they have or don't have. The sex lives of others is NONE of your business. If my high school daughter is having sex with her boyfriend or with 5 guys, it's none of your business.

It's not about "celebrating." It's about people minding their own business.

I'm going to disagree with you in the context of this discussion. If we're talking about the "boy crazy clique" in HS- girls who brag about their sex lives and very openly discuss who they've slept with to my 14 yo daughter- then it becomes her business and my business. I've been posting in this thread as anti-slut shaming. But you can't bitch about a lack of privacy when many girls forfeit that right by making their behavior well known.

+1. Hello, Facebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Slut shaming is basically looking down on women for having sex while celebrating men for their conquests. The good ol' double standard.

Which, of course, is rooted in biology. Men could literally 'father' thousands of kids, and in a world free from our current cultural mores and legal and economic contraints, might just do so. It is our hard-wired biological nature, no matter what the bien-pensant ideologues at Bryn Mawr wish to believe.

Women tap out at about 50 kids at most.

Also, men historically avoided mating with women who sleep around for fear of being cuckolded.

(Btw, I am happily married and neither Of us sleep around. And I was happy at 17 that my 16 yr old GF loved sex.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Which, of course, is rooted in biology. Men could literally 'father' thousands of kids, and in a world free from our current cultural mores and legal and economic contraints, might just do so. It is our hard-wired biological nature, no matter what the bien-pensant ideologues at Bryn Mawr wish to believe.

Women tap out at about 50 kids at most.

Also, men historically avoided mating with women who sleep around for fear of being cuckolded.

(Btw, I am happily married and neither Of us sleep around. And I was happy at 17 that my 16 yr old GF loved sex.)

I'll give you credit for the "bien-pensant ideologues at Bryn Mawr," I guess. But the rest is just evo-bio nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't disagree more. No one should be criticized for how much sex they have or don't have. The sex lives of others is NONE of your business. If my high school daughter is having sex with her boyfriend or with 5 guys, it's none of your business.

It's not about "celebrating." It's about people minding their own business.

I'm going to disagree with you in the context of this discussion. If we're talking about the "boy crazy clique" in HS- girls who brag about their sex lives and very openly discuss who they've slept with to my 14 yo daughter- then it becomes her business and my business. I've been posting in this thread as anti-slut shaming. But you can't bitch about a lack of privacy when many girls forfeit that right by making their behavior well known.

+1. Hello, Facebook.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That depends on what your negative comments were.

If your negative comments were, "I don't think it's a good idea for a person to have sex with multiple partners while in high school, because it distracts from their studies," then no, it's not slut-shaming.

If your negative comments were, "Any girl who has sex with multiple boys in high school is a tramp whom nobody could respect," then yes, it is slut-shaming, and yes, it's wrong.

Sounds like a slut to me