Nope, it definitely mocks and scorn the woman for having sex. "Fucking" bolded and underlined, "trust" in giant letters, "moan" in giant letters and shaky font, and the last quip that "it never lasts very long" in underlined cursive... All of that calls attention to the act of having sex rather than the noise.
I think it has more to do with the words they use to voice their opinion. Both Sinead and Rashida used words like "Whore," "Prostitute," and "Porn."
This insinuates that sex workers- strippers, prostitutes, porn stars, etc.- are not worthy of respect and the worst thing you could compare someone to. It's one thing to…
This seems like a lot of effort for justifying the Polly Prostitute article. I also loved how you quoted Hermione Stranger's piece while ignoring its point, that women shouldn't be shamed for doing what's required to be successful just because what's required is "slutty" because they have the agency to decide whether…
That was just a terrible essay all around.
I still think "Polly Prostitute" was uncalled for.
Exactly. When 'whore' is an insult, it's slut-shaming. If you can't have a conversation about female sexuality without equating sex-workers to the lowest of the low, to the thing that no person should ever want to be, how dare they, it's slut-shaming.
I thought slut shaming was more of the way you approached a position, like, "These dolls look like fucking whores," instead of, "I question the age appropriateness of the way these dolls are dress, given the age of the children that play with them."
I think the point of calling out "slut-shaming" in this context has never really been abut trying to shut down anyone who dares to have an opinion about the sexualization of women in our society, but to point out that the way we talk about it matters. Because words DO matter, and the way people like Rashida Jones' and…
Don't forget slut-shaming in ironic quotation marks, because it's obviously not a real thing and come on guys, look at those clothes.
Yeah the Jewshroom one caught me completely off-guard, too. It wasn't so much an offensive reaction for me (I think the use of colonialism imagery is WAY more offensive in that context), my brain just jumped quickly from "where the fuck did that come from" to "hey wait, dont co-opt my people for your bullshit."
- Polly Prostitute
Yup, the comparison is so fucking disrespectful.
I call her Polly Prostitute, partly due to her fashion choices which includes boots, heels, and minis that barely cover her ass. Before you get mad at me for "slut-shaming," this is a doll marketed to little girls.
Yeah, but if I have that exact outfit I am being called a hooker by default.
It's like if you called Princess Tiana ratchet, you bet your sweet arse I'm going to call you out on racism because fictional or not, your calling something that represents actual people a slur.
So Polly is a doll, but she's a female that…
"I call her Polly Prostitute, partly due to her fashion choices which includes boots, heels, and minis that barely cover her ass."
Wow, so you put scare quotes around the phrase slut-shaming, having just used the p-slur. You don't get to shame real sex workers to aid the narrative of your unoriginal just-in-time-for-Christmas article.