By Emily Lindin , founder of the Unslut Project. Sometimes it doesn't involve any words at all. In the case of Allyson Pereira, one of the women I interviewed for the upcoming Slut: A Documentary Film , it involved a mobile phone photo. When her high school ex-boyfriend offered to get back together with her if she sent him a photo of her breasts, Allyson agreed. That photo ended up being shared on cell phones among their classmates and even among adults throughout their community, and it was used to slut-shame her to the point that she attempted suicide.
It was for me, anyway. You cannot be a slut and a brilliant academic whose work is changing the world for the better. You cannot be a slut and a loyal friend who will listen for hours over a cup of tea. You cannot be a slut and a good mother who is raising kind, thoughtful children.
When you are labeled a slut, you are no longer seen as a multi-dimensional person. What you say can be ignored. What you feel can be laughed at. What you report, in the case of sexual assault, can be dismissed. What makes a woman 'a slut'? Hey, Minister, remember me?
Marianne Faithfull ain't helping anyone by calling Miley a slut. Samantha Gailey Geimer, another of the women whose story will be featured in Slut: A Documentary Film experienced that dismissal in the late s, at the age of She had been sexually assaulted by acclaimed director Roman Polanski. As soon as she and her mother reported what had happened to her, media sources began examining her sexual history, trying to paint her as a slut who could not, therefore, be trusted as a witness to her own rape.
Some women want to reclaim the word slut in order to make it empowering. But as an insult, it needs to disappear.
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