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Reminds me of her when I was her age (if I'd been a badass)
Blog post in which an amazingly insightful 13 year old girl lays it all out re: slut shaming. 
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/01/24/reminds-me-of-me-when-i-was-her-age/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed
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"Hi!
So, the 27th of August is kind of a big deal for me as a YouTuber. But why? Because as of then, I’ll have been on YouTube for two years. Two years! What?! Crazy, right? To commemorate this special occasion, I want to do the “Seven Days, Seven Topics” challenge. That title is pretty self-explanatory, but it basically means that every day up to and including the 27th, I’ll be doing a video on a topic that’s important to me.
Disclosure: I don’t know everything, and I’m not going to pretend to. If you disagree with me on a topic, that’s fine. Let’s just all try to stay mature, respectful, and classy.
Anyway, let’s hop to it! Today’s topic: Slut-Shaming, and Why it’s Wrong.
So first off, what the hell is slut-shaming? Slut-shaming is the unfortunate phenomenon in which people degrade or mock a woman because she dresses in tight, revealing clothing, enjoys sex, has sex a lot, or may just be rumored to participate in sexual activity. The message that slut-shaming sends to women is that sex is bad, having sex with more than one person is horrible, and everyone will hate you for having sex at all."
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"Hi!
So, the 27th of August is kind of a big deal for me as a YouTuber. But why? Because as of then, I’ll have been on YouTube for two years. Two years! What?! Crazy, right? To commemorate this special occasion, I want to do the “Seven Days, Seven Topics” challenge. That title is pretty self-explanatory, but it basically means that every day up to and including the 27th, I’ll be doing a video on a topic that’s important to me.
Disclosure: I don’t know everything, and I’m not going to pretend to. If you disagree with me on a topic, that’s fine. Let’s just all try to stay mature, respectful, and classy.
Anyway, let’s hop to it! Today’s topic: Slut-Shaming, and Why it’s Wrong.
So first off, what the hell is slut-shaming? Slut-shaming is the unfortunate phenomenon in which people degrade or mock a woman because she dresses in tight, revealing clothing, enjoys sex, has sex a lot, or may just be rumored to participate in sexual activity. The message that slut-shaming sends to women is that sex is bad, having sex with more than one person is horrible, and everyone will hate you for having sex at all."
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More excellence at the link.
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