Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds....EDITED
Last edited Sat Jul 12, 2014, 09:33 AM - Edit history (1)
A new study of college women and their attitudes about so-called sluttiness found that slut-shaming — calling out a woman for her supposedly promiscuous sexual behavior — actually had more to do with a woman’s social class than it did with sexual activity.
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"Viewing women only as victims of men's sexual dominance fails to hold women accountable for the roles they play in reproducing social inequalities," Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociology and organizational studies professor at the University of Michigan, said in a release. "By engaging in 'slut-shaming' — the practice of maligning women for presumed sexual activity — women at the top create more space for their own sexual experimentation, at the cost of women at the bottom of social hierarchies."
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Armstrong and her team had originally viewed slut-shaming as based on “sexual double standards established and upheld by men, to women’s disadvantage,” they wrote in the study, which was published Wednesday. They thought that, due to societal expectations that men should seek out lots of sexual activity but that women could only do so while in a committed relationship, the women are “vulnerable to slut stigma when they violate this sexual standard and consequently experience status loss and discrimination,” they wrote.
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The authors discovered that the affluent women participating in sororities in fact worried less about being judged as a slut than did the less affluent women, even though they would engage in more sexual activity. That was because they kept that activity quiet and conveniently seemed to define the accepted standards surrounding sexual behavior.
But when the less affluent women tried to befriend them, the affluent women would publicly slut-shame them as a way to convey that they didn’t fit in.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/29/slut-shaming-study.html
Interesting read.
edited to add: I posted this because I thought it was interesting how once again it's an 'us' vs 'them' type of thing. This was another way of putting poor/less fortunate people 'in their place'. Adding in the race factor and I think that says it all....
I also wanted to add this is the first time I've seen this or any article like it. Maybe I should have included this originally but I never expected for anyone to call for my banning over this.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Great to see you! 
I wish I had. I'd taken a break for about over a month and wasn't even reading very much.
To me it's another way to hurt poor people. Another reason we need to try and level the playing field.
As for being popular, I know who you and I always like your posts. 
And back atcha!
The ridiculous "ban her" comment by the jury along with the fact this was alerted on at all is shameful. This is a discussion board! It's here to discuss stuff!
But calling for banning.....give me a break. 
but for me to be banned. I'm really at a loss.
This is why I'm taking longer breaks...this was a malicious alert, imo.
Thank for letting me know.
It was definitely a malicious alert, but most DUers are above that trying to drive others off DU, so do what I do now and focus on the good folk at DU and ignore the rest
Glad to see you're back! I would really have missed you around here.
