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In TV or film, do you get to be a slut without comeuppance?
Some of the very normal expectations that will be placed on you as a male – to distance yourself from femininity, to be tough and stolid, to laugh at certain jokes, to use words like "slut" without irony, to deride ambitious or non-traditional women, to dominate and emasculate other males – are keeping even the most enlightened parts of this world less hospitable for women than for you.
Me being a slut, or me being a slut without sleeping with you?
But have we really got to the point where you can't refer to Madonna as a slut without being sued?
As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves "slut" without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is.
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