6 thoughts on “The Science Of Slut Shaming”

  1. Reminds me of a recent conversation I had on Twitter. People with facial piercings or tattoos just can’t understand why they have trouble finding work, or being treated professionally.

    To me, it’s always been simple:

    1) There’s a social stigma attached to facial piercings and, even more so, tattoos.
    2) People choose to get facial piercings and tattoos because of the social stigma; or
    3) because all their friends are doing it and they want to be part of “in” crowd.

    They feedback on each other, continuing the practice. If the social stigma ever goes away, less people will get facial piercings or tattoos. The “alternative” motivation is already waning.

    The only rational reason I can see for complaining about the social stigma is that you’ve forgotten why you got the facial piercing or tattoo in the first place – or never knew. In the case of a piercing, you can just remove it.

  2. I tend to ask otherwise beautiful woman why they have tattoos. Almost everyone regrets the decision (I don’t usually ask young girls but woman in their 30s or 40s.)

    Yeah, I’m annoying that way. I’m talking about really gorgeous woman.

    I’m also not talking about the little butterfly nobody sees. I’m talking about billboards nobody can miss.

  3. “Vaillancourt thinks it’s mostly about resentment toward the competition over mate selection.

    “I think there are several factors involved, especially this: women want romance and friendship from their special guy, and friendship with a number of guys, and women fear that excessive sexual aggrandizement will distract guys’ attention away from the necessary friendship-building habits and attitudes.”

    http://alankhenderson.blogspot.com/2013_11_01_archive.html#4539809822556737712

    Another way to state my thesis: women are the civilizers of men, sluttiness is a de-civilizer of men, and women who do not work for Cosmo or The Frisky are very wary about appearances of sluttiness.

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