Whore:
/hôr/
noun derogatory
A person who will sleep with another person for money.
A prostitute
A whore is not someone in a crop top and shredded denim cutoffs. They do not deserve to be cut down to size because you assign their personality based upon their outfit choice. A slut is not someone with drawn eyebrows, fake lashes and Kardashian-worthy contouring in Lululemon leggings and an Urban Outfitters babydoll tee. You know what is ugly? Calling women whores or sluts or skanks behind their backs, or worse—to their faces. Who are you to say what they can and cannot wear or look like?
It’s sad that I even need to write this article because of the many instances this has occurred. There was a time in my life when I would do this. I would be the one saying how sleazy a girl was because she would wear Herve Ledger bandage dresses and Louboutin knock-offs. Then I realized, Who am I to say that? If they feel good wearing it, then more power to them. And could it be, some of these girls were great people and super kind towards me? They were...cool. I realized that I couldn’t be bothered by someone else’s choices. Sure some of them are catty, but who cares? Forget about them and move on. No need to spread your negative experiences with those who don't even want to listen to your complaints. These aren’t causing globally destructive and morally corrupt chaos. They aren’t making the world any more terrible than it already is by NOT dressing like a 17th Century spinster ...even if they were an asshole to you that one time at that one party last year.
Women should be able to walk around in cut off Levi’s with their ass hanging out and not be judged or objectified for it—just like men can walk around with their shirts off and not be judged or objectified for their decision. We are so fortunate to live in a society where it is okay to dress like sexual beings or not. We could even dress up as a dinosaur-unicorn hybrid everyday and no one would throw us in jail for dressing like a dinosaur-unicorn. Just because someone dresses differently than you it does not make him or her wrong or a bad person (or a dinosaur-unicorn hybrid). Everyone has their opinion on what it is to dress ‘sexy’. For example, our ~incredibly prolific entertainment journalists~ have noted that this outfit that Taylor Swift wore was ‘sexy’. I’m not even going to explain, just click the link.
Instead, let’s stop with the derogatory name-calling. Let’s stop with the all-too-quick judgments. Stop taking women down and degrading them. Enough. Let’s be supportive of other women so they DON’T feel insecure within their bodies and feel the need to dress a certain way. Turtlenecks and all. Be nice to your fellow female comrades and it will come back. Promise. xPromise. x
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