TW For Slut Shaming, References To Rape

[teleens_journal]

Parents, Don't Dress Your Girls Like Tramps, writes columnist LZ Granderson at CNN.com.

HIghlights:

• LZ Granderson: Some parents dress their young girls in provocative outfits
• Retailers have encouraged this behavior by marketing inappropriate clothing
• He says it's OK to blame retailers, but it's parents who are ultimately responsible
• Children need

Comments

[gretchystretchy]

Someone (a middle-aged woman who is friends with my parents) posted this to Facebook yesterday and was like "Amen! This guy is right on."

My comment: "To me, the problem lies less with parents and more with our sexist, patriarchal culture that sexualizes young girls while simultaneously infantalizes grown women. Either way, women and girls are being sexually objectified, which is a problem.

I definitely could've done without the slut-shaming, though. Regardless of clothing choices, sexual activity, or whatever else, referring to any woman or girl as a "tramp" helps no one."

One other person commented, agreeing with my sentiment, but 10 other people "liked" the link. So. =/

[teleens_journal]

When I posted it to my FB, I said essentially the same thing that you did... And wound up having to get into an argument with another woman over how words like "tramp" have multiple meanings and that "slut" was being reclaimed, *headdesk*.

[tamerterra]

...Reclaiming slurs doesn't mean applying them to people who don't even know what they mean yet, ffs.

[teleens_journal]

IAWTC

[darth_snarky]

Yeah, I don't think third graders are really reclaiming those words. And it sure as hell doesn't count as reclamation when a man uses them.

[roseofjuly]

But he wasn't using it in the reclamatory sense, so how is that relevant.

[teleens_journal]

EXACTLY!