Hey, Slut!

In video game culture, anonymity offers strength and power to say things one normally would not say otherwise. 

Examples from fatuglyorslutty.com include: "how big are your boobs?" and "I bet ur fat" - however, this online language is slowly leaking out into real life.

While walking around downtown guelph, in jeans, boots and a jacket done up to my neck I had not only boys screaming obscenities, but girls as well. And hey, if girls are saying it about girls, why can't boys say it about girls?

Walking down the street and talking to friends, a girl yells "SLUTS" followed by a car of boys yelling "suck my dick". It had nothing to do with the way we were dressed, or the way we were acting. It was the fact that we were in the right place at the right time that we were getting harassed.

Now tell me, how does that work with the myth that women are "asking for it" by the way they are dressed, or the provocative way they are acting?

Girls need to stop calling other girls whores, and sluts, it makes it okay when boys do it, and boys need to stop screaming at every girl walking down the street just because society has said that by being a girl, she is asking for it. 

Next time you hear someone who can't defend themselves, stand up for them and have a voice, don't fall silent.