Slut-shaming
Slut-shaming – a form of gendered stigmatization that involves criticizing, blaming, humiliating, or discrediting a person, most often a woman or girl, because their sexual behavior, personal relationships, clothing, body presentation, or public self-expression are perceived as too open, provocative, “improper,” or inconsistent with dominant norms of sexual respectability.
Slut-shaming may take the form of verbal insults, moral condemnation, social exclusion, online harassment, reputational attacks, or other forms of psychological and symbolic violence. It reinforces the idea that women’s sexuality must be controlled, judged, or punished, and supports broader patriarchal assumptions that associate female sexual autonomy with shame, impurity, or moral failure.
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