"If you're anything like my parents, you probably wouldn't even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. Here's a recent example from Instagram: Do y'all females ever tell ur homegirls Sis chill you letting too many dudes hit?' Essentially, that means: Women do you ever tell your girlfriends that they're whores and need to stop letting so many guys fuck them?"
"Consider the use of the word female in these posts. It is not a neutral term here, it is a term of abuse. It's used by teenage boys to degrade us and equate us to animals. Boys are never described as males, but girls are always females the equivalent of sows or calves, creatures that are less than human. We're also thots (whores), community pussy and bops."
A 19-year-old man posted a reel asking whether women tell their friends they are 'whores' for having sex. Commenters responded with misogynistic claims that women treat body counts as leaderboards and compete over sexual experience. The term 'female' is used as an insult to dehumanize girls, and girls are labeled 'thots', 'community pussy', and 'bops'. 'Bop' stands for 'been over passed' and signals being passed around. Online spaces normalize boys' sexual activity while shaming girls. Adolescents encounter subtle and overt misogyny across mainstream social apps like Instagram and TikTok.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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