From Kelly Wong's blog More than words stop slut-shaming
I tripped into this blog and thought it interesting though not unfamiliar that the words slut and whore which I use often to describe my inner she as you know if you visit here from time to time, can be less healthy in other contexts and other peoples paradigms.
Why I have embraced them? It is the power and freedom that those words afford me. The power of my slut in her skin. She sizzles, she slinks and she craves to express her sluttishness, her whore.
As much as I cherish the whore in me, the essential she-slut of me, like Kelly I am equally disturbed by a group of young women calling each other these names in greeting (now I am channelling my mother's middle class nice girl psyche LOL). I suspect however, that Kelly would be just as disturbed by my use of the words. She says that by women using them with each other somehow reclaiming them, it gives men an excuse to use them with reference to women, at women, about women in a humiliating context. Well hush my mouth and slap my face with a wet lettuce leaf! Did I get a little tingle when I read her argument there. Yes, Yes I am being flippant.
The difference is the paradigm. When a man calls me slut hopefully it will be prefaced with 'My'. When I hear Slut on His lips, I am respected, I am cherished, I am wanted. This is my worldview.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T....find out what it means to me
cheerio
