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kyburgSarah MacLean: Bashing Romance Novels Is Just Another Form Of Slut-Shaming:
romancingthebookworm:
parentheticalaside:
respectingromance:
When phones are hacked and pictures released, society blames women for taking them in the first place. For having them. For sharing them. For honoring themselves and their sexuality. And when women are bold and brave and (gasp!) proud of their bodies — proud enough to take a nude photo and share it with a partner in privacy, or post it to Instagram or to take to the cover of a magazine in the buff or to attempt to “break the internet,” society shouts her down. Tells her that she’s too proud. Too brash. Too sexual. Too “slutty.”
She is vilified for her sexuality. For her sex positivity. For the satisfaction of it. The power inherent in it. And that’s all before we discuss the humanity of it – after all, is there anything more human than sex? That from which we all came?
You’ll want to read Sarah MacLean’s entire essay. Especially the (happy) ending.
I’ve been keeping romance talk to my sideblog but this one deserves a mention everywhere.
This essay is such perfection.
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romancingthebookworm:
parentheticalaside:
respectingromance:
When phones are hacked and pictures released, society blames women for taking them in the first place. For having them. For sharing them. For honoring themselves and their sexuality. And when women are bold and brave and (gasp!) proud of their bodies — proud enough to take a nude photo and share it with a partner in privacy, or post it to Instagram or to take to the cover of a magazine in the buff or to attempt to “break the internet,” society shouts her down. Tells her that she’s too proud. Too brash. Too sexual. Too “slutty.”
She is vilified for her sexuality. For her sex positivity. For the satisfaction of it. The power inherent in it. And that’s all before we discuss the humanity of it – after all, is there anything more human than sex? That from which we all came?
You’ll want to read Sarah MacLean’s entire essay. Especially the (happy) ending.
I’ve been keeping romance talk to my sideblog but this one deserves a mention everywhere.
This essay is such perfection.
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