I haven’t ranted in a while. I couldn’t find anything to rant about (imagine that) but alas, school has started again, AKA the one thing that consistently itches my irritation bone. I’ve been back for two days and I already have several things to bitch, whine, and complain about.
Today’s subject, however, is “sluts.” Such a nasty word. According to the dictionary and modern slang, a slut is someone who is sexually promiscuous, and if those words hurt your brain: they like to “sleep around.” I’m guilty, just like the rest of the teenage population, of using this word. But I don’t anymore, and here is why.
Take me, for example. I love to have sex. If I had someone to have sex with, I would probably have sex all the time. But because I don’t talk about it a lot, my peers think (or so I assume) it’s acceptable. I have never been called a slut in my life (by someone who wasn’t anonymous on the internet, anyway) and I don’t think I ever will..hopefully.
Now, let’s talk about a girl I share one of my classes with. She’s the same age as I am, and from what I hear (which I cannot confirm nor deny) and what she tells me, she likes to have sex. She has someone to have sex with, so she has it all the time. But wait…all of the sudden, it has become a huge fucking deal because rather than being more like me and keeping to herself, she talks about it. People start to call her a slut, a whore, and pretty much any other derogatory name just because she likes to have sex…just like the rest of us.
So tell me, my peers, when did having sex and liking it become such a bad thing? When did it become acceptable to ridicule someone because they like to fuck?
Newsflash: it’s not acceptable. Sex is normal, adolescent behavior that I’m completely positive more than 75% of my school engages in. If you’re calling a girl (or a boy) a slut, you’re actually sexually harrassing them.
To be honest, I don’t believe that girls call other girls (I use the term “girls” loosely because this does not change for the male dynamic) sluts because they actually think she’s a “slut.” I think they call her that because they’re insecure about themselves and they’re jealous.
“She’s having sex with the guy I want to be having sex with. No fair. I’m going to call her a slut, even though if I were with him, I would be doing the exact same thing she is!”
So, good for you, fellow students of Centennial. Congratulations on your dumb-assery.
