I mean you can try and take slut back but it won’t stop it from being meant as an attack

Are you a woman?

It blows my mind that slut is still used as an attack on women. My family and my circle of friends have used the term playfully amongst each other, but as I got older and more involved in politics and realized that, no, there are people who legitimately believe in this myth that sluttiness is somehow immoral or stains a woman, that blew my fucking mind.

I mean, my parents weren’t exactly labeling themselves sex positive, but had I ever suggested that a woman was somehow stained or immoral or whatever else these people associate with “sluts,” my mama would have whooped my ass from here to a feminist bookstore.

Seriously, sex is fun. It’s fucking great. It’s exercise, it releases the fun chemicals, it’s a way to bond if you want to be bond, it’s a way to pass an evening in a new town if that’s all you’re in it for. Use protection, make sure you’re not bringing a murderer home, and go have fun.