judgement
The hyperfocus on what girls are wearing with a healthy heaping of judgment sends precisely the opposite message, underscoring that girls should be constantly concerned about what they are wearing and who might be judging them for it.
birth shaming
If you don’t know a woman well enough to know how she feels about what’s happening with her vagina, then you don’t know her well enough to advise her on it.
bullying
"Words hurt. Words can kill," says the mother of Rachel Ehmke, the 13-year-old seventh grader who committed suicide last week after being "slut shamed" and bullied.
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May 11, 2012 at 4:36pm | 99 comments

bad metaphors for masturbation
Admitting to reading romance novels is almost always accompanied by a certain embarrassed self-denigration or rationalization. But why?
slut shaming
You can shame, exploit, and humiliate your classmates and get away with it, so long as you maintain a smokescreen of deniability in the form of carrying on your endeavors off-campus.
day after pill
The fact is that these medications don’t increase the rate of sexual activity at a statistically significant rate, but who cares if they did?