Hear me out. I love words. As a writer, my heart pitter patters at the proper use of a really good word.
Words are powerful. They invoke feelings of great joy and devastating heartbreak.
But words are also ridiculous.
I've heard the word slut thrown around a lot lately. And I cringe every single time. Have we not moved past that yet? At the very least its unoriginal.
Slut is such a versatile word. I've heard it used to describe a woman's actions to the way she dresses. The only consistent is that it's meant to be derogatory.
It's 2018. 20-MF-18. Slut doesn't belong in our world. A woman's sex life is hers to choose and subject to not one ounce of judgment from anyone else. How little or how many partners she chooses are hers and hers alone to own.
How she dresses is not a representation of her sexual behavior. When we pretend as such, we walk a very dangerous line of "Well look at what she was wearing, she was asking for it." She wasn't. Not one time.
Women are often THE WORST at using this word, even in a playful way it's just stupid and you've got to stop. If we want the rest of the world to be held to a higher standard, we've got to start with ourselves.
There's a whole list of other words that bother me but today, I'm asking you to curb your use of the word slut.
Women deserve better.
