A big thank you to all the lovely slags who sat on the sofa. To all the women and girls who swapped 'slut shaming' experiences with me. Most of us shared the same early experience of being labelled slags and sluts before we were sexually active. Not much appears to have changed across the decades. Slut shaming is designed to shut down and silence women, so flying the flag 'Jane Hellings is a Slag' and publicly owning that label was an act of resistance. Overwhelmingly women viewed it as an act of solidarity, from men there were more mixed responses. These fell broadly into four categories; Ironic Sexists, Mansplainers, Knights in Shining Armour and Gropers. Ironic Sexists' continuous streams of sexist jokes are never to be taken seriously, because they understand the tenets of feminism. The Mansplainers earnestly and in some detail explained to me the cause of my oppression (it was never them). The Knights in Shining Armour were eager to save this 'Jane Hellings' from the terrible wrong done to her. The Gropers hoped that if Jane Hellings really was a slag then she might be up for a fuck. Hate patriarchy, love the patriarch.
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