Feminism : A New Form Of Rage From Modern Women 's Right Activists

What is even stranger is that women fully enforce this sexual double standard. Over 99% of woman agree that women enjoy sex as much as men do, yet when asked to describe a woman who has had many sexual partners, over 59% percent of women used words that fell under the negatively connotative ‘Promiscuous’ category, using words like “slut,” “cheap,” “loose,” “whore,” “easy,” and “dirty.” Twelve percent of women even used words that would suggest that sexually liberal woman are psychologically damaged, using words like “insecure,” “lonely,” “desperate,” “needy,” and ‘unfulfilled.” Only 8% of women tagged a sexually liberal woman in the more positive category of “sexually focused,” the respondents feeling that “these women were uncommitted and focused on sex rather than the relationship” (Milhausen and Herold). In addition, “Women were more likely to discourage a female friend from dating a highly experienced male that a male friend from dating a highly experienced female” (Milhausen and Herold). This fact furthers the case for women’s involvement in maintaining the double standard. In a one study researchers found that “Women will endorse a sexual double standard in which women are judged more

Whilst many disagreements have arisen in feminist discourse over the years, none has been quite as prevalent or divisive as the issue of the commodification of sexuality. There are two central groups in feminist ideology that are divided on this issue, liberal feminism and radical feminism. Liberal feminism is influenced by the ideas and values of liberalism. Thus, these feminists share a contractarian view which places an emphasis on a woman’s ability to make choices for herself and that the selling of one’s sexuality is merely an expression of that choice. Paradoxically, radical feminists believe that because women live in a patriarchal society, the commodification of sexuality can never be a choice or a form of expression. Rather, forms of sexual commodification such as pornography and prostitution just enforce male oppression. This essay will explore these two ideological positions in regard to their divergent definitions of human nature and freedom which has created a division within feminism about the commodification of sexuality.

The theory being tested in the article is that women participate in slut shaming as a way for them to distance or separate themselves from other women. The reason they separate themselves is a way for women to categorize other women into different statuses and a way for themselves to maintain their own status. The status classes women are categorized in are linked to the social class they are a part of. Slut shaming among women is not necessarily based on their sexual acts, but of the way they act as a woman. The theory also states that slut shaming is also a result of male dominance and female submission. The slut label was created by men due to a double standard created by society. The double standard is that men are expected to act upon their sexual desires regardless of being in a relationship or having any emotional connection with the person they’re engaging that sexual act with all while women are only allowed to participate in sexual activities if they are in a loving and committed relationship. However, if

In modern society, this word is often used to put women down and make them feel lesser. It is almost exclusively used in regards to women with men being the main users with the perfect example being the very officer that inspired the first Slutwalk. The Slutwalk takes this ideal and flips it, choosing to make it a positive term. This criticism’s first presented element is the word “slut”.

The issue that the authors address is trying to find an explanation and understanding of why women actively participate in slut shaming.

The beginning of the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States, which predates Jeannette Rankin’s entry into Congress by nearly 70 years, grew out of a larger women’s rights movement. That reform effort evolved during the 19th century, initially emphasizing a broad spectrum of goals before focusing solely on securing the franchise for women. Women’s suffrage leaders, moreover, often disagreed about the tactics for and the emphasis (federal versus state) of their reform efforts. Ultimately, the suffrage movement provided political training for some of the early women pioneers in Congress,

Our project topic was centered on Social Control, as discussed in Chapter 8 of the Kottak textbook. Social Control is defined as “maintaining social norms and regulating conflict” (Kottak 2013; 165). More specifically, we decided to focus on the phenomenon of “slut-shaming.” According the Oxford Dictionary Online for American English, “slut-shaming,” is defined as the “action of stigmatizing a woman for engaging in behavior judged to be promiscuous or sexually provocative.” Although Oxford singularizes women in this phenomenon, the practice of slut-shaming is inclusive to both genders. It is the stressed implication that women are more targeted that begged us to question: are women more likely to follow societal regulation in regards to their sexual acts than men? In other words, are women more likely to follow the social norms of the culture regarding their sexual activities than men? Shame and gossip are informal forms of social control that are usually practiced in small communities, which further correlates with the idea that women will follow the informal regulations put into place in order to avoid these consequences. With such ideologies in mind, we hypothesized that in American culture, men are less likely to be confined to sexually-charged social constraints than women.

The purpose of this study was to understand the college students’ perceptions of slut-shaming discourse. The research indicated that there was a strong correlation between cultural expectations and slut-shaming. According to the results, the perceptions of slut-shaming are influenced by aspects such as: class, culture, media, gender, feminism, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality. Overall, college students were found to be on crossfire of slut-shaming discourse on a college campus.

In our society, slut has become a controversial word in our world today. People have different opinions on the word slut. For instance, some people sees it as disgusting, while others see it as

She used the term slut-shaming for when people make girls feel bad about expressing their sexuality. In class we examined the term double-bind, when girls are shamed for both having sex and not having sex. It was a positive that she discussed the shame girls face with expressing sexuality, but it was negative in the sense that she didn’t mention they also face being shamed for not having sex. She presented her information like a heterosexual script, where the woman is the ‘gatekeeper’ for sex and the man is the sexual aggressor, always pushing the limits of the woman to have

In her article, ““Feminist Criticism” from Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide (2006), author Lois Tyson endorses the idea of “bad girls” versus “good girls” in the world today. She feels that people view feminism through only two different lenses; the positive and also the negative perspectives of women. The norm of the “bad girls” is that they “violate patriarchal norms in some way: they’re sexually forward in appearance or behavior, or they have multiple sex partners” (Tyson 3). In other words, Tyson is acknowledging that these women are also known as “whores” or “sluts”. This is the only way these women are looked at through these lenses. Along with this, Tyson also explains that since they violate patriarchal norms, “‘bad

In today’s society it seems that there has been an increase in the word slut. We have began to take away the idea of someone being a victim and instead slut shaming them. Films have

During my English period, I've been analyzing a speech and some articles on the topic of slut-shaming. While I read the articles, I was shocked to discover that this was an issue in our school systems. In case you weren’t aware, slut-shaming is the act of insulting a young woman (or girl) for being sexual. In this act, people use obscenities such as slut, whore, and slag, to shame women for their supposed “crime”. This, of course, doesn’t end well for the victim. In other words, this concerns you because this is an issue that not only spans San Luis High School but the entire district. This must be resolved because it has had dire consequences for many students and it has connections towards rape culture.

The main problem with this study, is that there is hardly enough evidence to support this matter. Society as a whole has silenced this problem since the beginning of time, even by normalizing it. We as a whole find it okay to oppress women by calling them slang terms such as, “whore, slut, bitch…”, to question a woman’s choice in lifestyle. We ask questions like, “What are you telling others by what you put on your body”, “Are you sure you want to drink that much”, and “How many sexual partners have you had over the past five years?” There are not many empirical matters on this issue nor are their many studies. During my research, I found that many of the articles I was finding only date as far back as the early 1970’s. The 1970’s is the time frame when many women began fighting for equality.

On Feb 8th, there was an alleged meeting taking place in Toronto, which individuals who thought rape should be legal attended. The notorious American pick-up artist, Roosh V, who was the leader of this meeting talked about, “How to Stop Rape,” in which he suggests legalizing rape on private property, and that feminism has left a legacy of weaker, more androgynous men, and that men should seek out women with eating disorders.” (Jenny Yuen) Not only does this way of thinking wrong, both ethically and morally, but it is allowing woman to be targets because of their form or any other specific trait that they may have in relation to this quote, furtherly downgrading them as human beings. Women should not feel like they are targets of such horrific