slut-shame

English

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Verb

slut-shame (third-person singular simple present slut-shames, present participle slut-shaming, simple past and past participle slut-shamed)

1. To make a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.
   • 2013, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Heather Wood Rudúlph, Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style, Mariner Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 119:

     There seems to be no middle ground between embracing one's inner porn star and slut-shaming the women who find themselves pressured or lured into sex-related work because they have few other options.

   • 2014, Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto‎^[1], Melville House, published 2014, →ISBN:

     His accuser was publicly reviled—viciously slut-shamed, in some cases—and withdrew from classes.

   • 2014, Melissa Atkins Wardy, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Chicago Review Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 6:

     Further, why is it OK for a prepubescent girl to play at sexy, but a teen girl gets slut-shamed for expressing and experimenting with her sexuality?

Derived terms

• slut-shamey