Getting Rid of “Slut-Shaming” Isn’t Enough

The entire phrase has to go.

Can we please stop using this phrase? Can we just banish it to the far corners of the world?

To be very clear, I am opposed to shame of any kind. We are the culmination of the choices we have made to be who and how we are. Someone else’s level of comfort with how we chose to be should never be open commentary we should have to be party to. Even people who chose to live in ways that result in destruction of self or others should be handled in a manner that leads toward awareness and help.

Shaming people rarely leads to a positive environment of growth, self improvement or healing. Off my soap box.

It’s amazing that women are claiming their sexuality. Women are notably not just more in control of their sexual agency but feeling good about it. Self awareness has grown immensely. It’s about god damn time.

The problem I have with the term “anti slut-shaming” is simple.

We’re still using the word slut. Slut has to go. Because opposing slut shaming still allows people to consider a sexually open woman a slut.