Slut-shame

I confess, until last week I did not know it was a word. Then someone sent me this piece by Laurie Penny. It's a thoughtful article about the word 'sexualisation' and how it is being bandied about my proponents of today's moral panic about girl's and young women's sexuality. Slut-shaming comes in in the last paragraph and some newspaper sub has seen fit to make it the subject of the headline: Stop this slut-shaming. I don't know why, but I had expected better journalism from the Guardian (or less prurience at any rate).

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