Slut Shame Women Research Paper
When it comes to double standards, the sexual traits of men and women have to be the biggest divide. We live in an era where there are no real rules. There are little boys who do ballet and little girls who play football. There are people with rainbow hair and eccentric senses of style, needless to say we live in an era where it’s totally ok to be whatever you want to be. We can love whomever we want to love, Their are people who have no gender called being “fluid”. So in an age where all this is accepted and celebrated, you would think it would be ok for a girl to wear a pair of shorts but it’s not.
When studied statistically women were more often slut shamed without actually participating in sexual activity (EBSCO 2016). “Furthermore, …show more content…
Telling women that they can’t wear certain things because it distracts the boys is what is encouraging rape culture and men to slut shame women. Controlling what a woman can wear is just the beginning of all the other problems that are caused by this thinking in society. In school, it’s girls can’t wear tank tops. Then in the future it’s 70 cents to every man's dollar and the encouragement of rape culture by saying that she was asking for it by wearing a skirt. With the way things are today, if we can bump into a boy in the girl's room, then my dress can have a short hemline if I so chose. Especially in a school setting where it’s suppose to be a comfortable and safe learning environment not at a club where a person has to watch their attire to not attract negative attention. A school should be for learning not a place for a teacher to look for a …show more content…
There is a gender bias when it comes to males and females who are sexually promiscuous in layman's terms, It’s okay for men to be trollops and shameful for a woman to even look attractive. “Although there has been a modernization of views on sexuality since the feminist movement emerged, traditional characteristics can still be identified among modern values and experiences (Bordini 2012). Therefore, there might be different rules and values related to sexuality, depending on the individual’s gender. This is called sexual double standard, that is, the acceptance of different criteria to assess the sexuality of men and women. A recent study conducted with Brazilian adolescents showed, for instance, that peers and parents still condemn women who actively express their sexuality and men who do not do it. In 1956, Ira Reiss began a series of publications about the double standard in premarital sexual intercourse. In his first article, he argued that this double standard was only one of the dimensions of a general double standard of male–female relationships involving many areas beyond sexuality (Reiss 1956). Within the field of sexuality, Reiss suggested the existence of standards that regulate other aspects in addition to premarital sexual
When studied statistically women were more often slut shamed without actually participating in sexual activity (EBSCO 2016). “Furthermore, …show more content…
Telling women that they can’t wear certain things because it distracts the boys is what is encouraging rape culture and men to slut shame women. Controlling what a woman can wear is just the beginning of all the other problems that are caused by this thinking in society. In school, it’s girls can’t wear tank tops. Then in the future it’s 70 cents to every man's dollar and the encouragement of rape culture by saying that she was asking for it by wearing a skirt. With the way things are today, if we can bump into a boy in the girl's room, then my dress can have a short hemline if I so chose. Especially in a school setting where it’s suppose to be a comfortable and safe learning environment not at a club where a person has to watch their attire to not attract negative attention. A school should be for learning not a place for a teacher to look for a …show more content…
There is a gender bias when it comes to males and females who are sexually promiscuous in layman's terms, It’s okay for men to be trollops and shameful for a woman to even look attractive. “Although there has been a modernization of views on sexuality since the feminist movement emerged, traditional characteristics can still be identified among modern values and experiences (Bordini 2012). Therefore, there might be different rules and values related to sexuality, depending on the individual’s gender. This is called sexual double standard, that is, the acceptance of different criteria to assess the sexuality of men and women. A recent study conducted with Brazilian adolescents showed, for instance, that peers and parents still condemn women who actively express their sexuality and men who do not do it. In 1956, Ira Reiss began a series of publications about the double standard in premarital sexual intercourse. In his first article, he argued that this double standard was only one of the dimensions of a general double standard of male–female relationships involving many areas beyond sexuality (Reiss 1956). Within the field of sexuality, Reiss suggested the existence of standards that regulate other aspects in addition to premarital sexual