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This may seem to be argumentative but...I tend to speak my mind when something really hits me the wrong way. I just want to point out the seeming hypocrisy of us all being in this place where we, as women, are encouraged to feel free to express ourselves as sexual beings, post pictures of ourselves nude and/or engaged in sexual activity on the internet for strangers, reveal our fantasies, proclivities and secrets and yet a woman on the street who is dressed a certain way or behaves a certain way, without even knowing anything about her, is categorized as a slut, or slutty or otherwise exhibiting sluttish characteristics. Isn't it somewhat of a double standard? As long as we're here and sharing we're accepted as who and what we are, but if you're just some chick on the street you're fair game for the same old name-calling that's been going on since high school? Yes, I am sensitive to this issue and the use of that word as you might be aware if you read my contribution to another thread here in the Ladies' Lounge. But it shouldn't take a certain sensitivity to see that is hypocritical. Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I just had to say that.
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