Quotes tagged ‘Slut Shaming’

“Charlie Tweeder: What is up with Carrie Ann Baker? Billy Bob: Darcy’s friend? Charlie Tweeder: Oh, my God! She’s got this look. Like, I just fell out of the I’m-gonna-suck-your-dick tree and hit every branch on the way down!”

— W. Peter Iliff, Charlie Tweeder, Scott Caan, imdb.com

“Women are sold a lie about sex. The lie is that our sexuality is dangerous to ourselves and to others.”

— Ella Dawson, twitter.com

“Kathryn: My advice is to sleep with as many people as possible. Cecile Caldwell: But that would make me a slut, wouldn't it? Kathryn: Cecile, everybody does it; it's just that nobody talks about it. Cecile Caldwell: So, it's like a secret society? Kathryn: That's one way looking at it.”

— Roger Kumble, Kathryn Merteuil, Sarah Michelle Gellar, imdb.com

“Eat me, Sebastian! It's okay for guys like you and Court to fuck everyone. But when I do it, I get dumped for innocent little twits like Cecile. God forbid, I exude confidence and enjoy sex. Do you think I relish the fact that I have to act like Mary Sunshine 24/7 so I can be considered a lady? I'm…”

— Roger Kumble, Kathryn Merteuil, Sarah Michelle Gellar, imdb.com

“Jen: Isn't it charming when girls feel like they have to walk around half-naked in order to get attention? Naomi: Oh, well, you know what I say. If you have it, flaunt it. Jen: And I always say that if you feel the need to advertise it, it probably isn't worth buying.”

— Paul Sciarrotta, Jen Clark, Sara Foster, imdb.com

“Eve Baxter: [commenting on Mandy's unusual attire] Oh my god, what...what is this? Mandy Baxter: I went to a hoedown. Eve Baxter: Well, they're down a ho, now that you left.”

— Michael Shipley, Eve Baxter, Kaitlyn Dever, imdb.com

“Laverne: It just doesn't seem fair. A guy with a reputation is a hero. A girl with a reputation is a bimbo It just doesn't seem fair. Shirley: Well, who knows, maybe a hundred years from now all that will have changed. Laverne: Yeah, wouldn't it be great if no one cared about your reputation? Think…”

— Garry Marshall, Laverne De Fazio, Penny Marshall, imdb.com

“Rose: The name Madonna doesn't really fit her. Sophia: 'Slut' would be better! Rose: Sophia! Dorothy: Oh, please, please! She did things on that stage I never did with my husband!”

— Susan Harris, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com

“Blanche: I'm going to have to meet men lying down. Sophia: I thought you did.”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, imdb.com

“Well, as my Grandma used to say, it's only a walk of shame if you're capable of feeling shame.”

— Stephen Falk, Gretchen Cutler, Aya Cash, imdb.com

“So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t an…”

— Gail Dines, youtube.com

“Put the slut label on a working class girl, put in on a girl of color and what studies show is that girls who get defined as sluts in high school have similar PTSD symptoms to rape victims.”

— Gail Dines, youtube.com

“So many men mistake their own disrespect for women as a woman's lack of self-respect.”

— Ryan Henly, facebook.com

“Self-respect has nothing to do with sex or nudity. Self-respect means making choices that make you happy.”

— Unknown, femalecollective.tumblr.com

“We've been taught having self respect means keeping ourselves covered, not showing too much skin, not too much cleavage... we've been told wearing booty shorts make us cheap and nasty. We've been told we have to act, dress, and do certain things in order to have self respect - but we are not the one…”

— hannah-ruth-x, hannah-ruth-x.tumblr.com

“Don’t let anyone try to use casual dating against you. Slut shaming isn’t cool, and you still have feelings even if you don’t want to settle down.”

— Adriana, badgirlsbible.com

“Lauren: 'This doesn't make me a whore.' Jesse: 'A whore?! No, it makes you awesome.'”

— Justin Long and Lauren Miller, Jesse and Lauren, amazon.com

“Isn’t it sad that when a girl says she was sexually assaulted, our first instinct is to think she’s probably lying? Statistics and facts tell us the exact opposite. We demand ‘perfect victims’ who better not have been drinking or hanging out at a party in a short skirt or revealing dress or have eve…”

— Amy Schumer, amazon.com

“We may not be able to change others’ sex-negative judgments immediately, but we can change how we react when we are sexually shamed. I once had a lover tell me a certain sexual position felt too ‘pornlike.’ My first instinct was to feel like I’d done something taboo, when I should have acknowledged…”

— Rachel Kramer Bussel, damemagazine.com

“Stop slut-shaming and assuming that not having sex qualifies you as a better girlfriend than someone who has slept with someone or even multiple people before. Because it literally doesn’t matter. The number of people you’ve slept with does not define you as a woman, whether it’s 0 or 602.”

— Chelsea Moudry, thoughtcatalog.com