[lbo-talk] slut-shaming-study

[Charles Brown]

Doug Henwood via
Anthony Galluzzo
35 mins ·
The researchers discovered that definitions of "slutty" behavior and
the act of slut-shaming was largely determined along class lines
rather than based on actual sexual behavior. What's more, they found
the more affluent women were able to engage in more sexual
experimentation without being slut-shamed, while the less-affluent
women were ridiculed as sluts for being “trashy” or “not classy,” even
though they engaged in less sexual behavior.
"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."
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/29/slut-shaming-study.html