In the opening episode of "Popstars," the WB's newest reality-TV show, a camera slowly pans a line of girls waiting patiently for their chance to belt out a few bars of a song for a panel of judges. The girls gaze coyly at the camera and strike poses -- in their skintight pleather pants and last season's snakeskin print halter tops, soft bellies exposed from there to there, eyes crusty with mascara -- hoping that this brief moment on film will help launch them toward girl-band stardom. The TV show is a female version of "Making the Band," a semisuccessful reality show from last season that turned a parade of fresh-faced boys into a five-man Backstreet Boys pastiche called O-Town a band whose CD debuted on the charts on Jan. But where "Making the Band" took a handful of clean-cut boys next door and turned them into fuzzy, desexualized plush toys that you'd feel safe leaving with your year-old daughter, "Popstars" is assembling a collection of precocious sexpot tartlets hellbent on titillating men twice their age and striking fear into the heart of any teenage boy who has ever had an inopportune erection while selling pop pablum to prepubescent girls. The teenage pop starlet boom of has given rise to a passel of virginal sluts -- navel-exposing divas who proclaim that they are saving themselves for marriage while they shimmy across stages in second-skin white leather and spangled sports bras and the tiniest of belly chains.
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As these compiled experiences demonstrate, the issues of sexual bullying, harassment, assault, and "slut" shaming have affected and continue to affect many of our lives in deep, often dangerous ways. Reproduction of these stories in whole or in part is prohibited without consent from The UnSlut Project. This entry includes a description of sexual assault. I had lots of friends all through primary school and moving into secondary school. The first year of secondary school I had my two best friends and I was liked by most people. In the February of my first year of secondary school, my year-old cousin, the same age as me, took her own life as a result of bullying. I just felt like I wanted to be alone all the time so I turned away from everyone including my two best friends.
Either the guy never uses it, or he uses it for every girl. Yet, turn your attention to most men — normal, every day guys — and the world is divided into blacks and whites : there are the sluts, and then there are the good girls, and these two women might as well be different species. Yet, one thing I did not explore as in-depth there was how this functioned at the individual level; what is the mechanism behind individual men thinking this way — and why do some men NOT think this way? One of the most fascinating things to me is how much we despise the things we know might beat us.
Sharing personal information brings people closer together. Verified by Psychology Today. Culture in Mind. Throughout the furore that resulted in many sponsors withdrawing their support of his 'shock jock' show, women have failed to question whether slut or whore are 'legitimate' insults against women and if so, why is it that they are. Rush Limbaugh used these words because he knew how much power they had to incite a visceral reaction.