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Recently, I found this picture online. I think it is very striking and raises a lot of good points. I know I ask myself a lot of questions like these sometimes and I'm sure all of you do too. A big one for me is, "Why isn't there a masculine word for 'slut?'" While it isn't good to put anyone down, male or female, it is still frustrating why females are the only ones who are labeled like this. Sure, you can call a promiscuous man a "man whore," but it doesn't carry much weight. However, words like "slut" and "whore" carry a lot of weight and are very degrading to women.
One question brought up in this picture I found very interesting is, "Why doesn't more porn show female orgasms?" Being that I am naive and haven't watch porn, I didn't realize this was an issue. I guess I just assumed porn shows everything that happens in a typical sexual encounter, which includes a woman having an orgasm. I don't understand the reason why porn makers wouldn't put this into their show/movie/etc. Like the article talked about in class, is it because they want to hide the power of the erotic from women? Or is it something else entirely? This question really blew my mind.
I love this. This attacks some of the thoughts I've had about how women are pigeonholed in a much more articulate manner.
ReplyDeleteThese are interesting questions. They are questions that really do not have an answer to them. Its just the way things are.
ReplyDeleteI love this too! Most of these questions are ones I ask myself all the time, especially the one about equal pay for men and women. I also have trouble with the fact that women are constantly degraded for their sexual promiscuity but men are praised for it. I think it says a lot about the values of our society that there are so many words to put women down for their sexuality, yet none for men. Also I had no idea about the porn question either but I think that's extremely interesting!
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