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A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line.
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There are always people willing to defend men accused of rape by arguing that consent was in place, even though their conviction is based on nothing other than the say-so of the man involved. A gang rape becomes group sex, the rape of an unconscious woman a case of 'next-day regret'--and the truth is whatever the man being defended by the public and/or his immediate community says it is.
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― Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
― Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
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