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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
this place where we, as women, are encouraged to feel free to [color=red]express ourselves as sexual beings[/red], [color=red]post pictures of ourselves nude[/red] and/or engaged in sexual activity on the internet for strangers, [color=red]reveal our fantasies, proclivities and secrets[/red]
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Those things I've highlighted don't make sluts... they make people. The fact that you included the part about pictures of engaging in sexual activity on the internet for strangers belies your own opinion on the subject. That is where you draw the line for the word "slut". What you said implies that everybody who posts pictures in the Exhibition forum, or who writes about personal fantasies in the relative anonymity of the TFP, is a slut. But I wonder, do you apply this standard to the men of TFP who do the same? This is what Sweetpea's thread is about, so this is something I would like to pursue further if you'll humor me. What motivates your beliefs about this?
Sidenote: This is why I said what I did about the Exhibition forum in the 'What Happened to the TFP?' thread, and a whole lot of people got up in arms about why the forum exists. I want to thank mixedmedia for being the first person to admit (even in an indirect way) that there is an implicit assumption about the women who post in the EX forum, and that it isn't a safe place for our bodies as art.