I chose to talk about the article called “When Girls Use the Word ‘Slut’ to Bully Each Other”. This article in my perspective is very powerful and touchy subject for many to talk and explore about. Our society is so familiar with the word many refer to as in ‘Slut’.  A slut is a person that is no different by looking at, whether it may be you or me. Defining that person as a slut is an opinion, and judgment by a person. I intend to dig more in depth about this subject because this a problem in today’s society. Many young beautiful girls are being labeled as a slut which is unfair to themselves. While reading this article I have discovered that many women bullying other women by calling them this terrible name. Many women use this word to degrade someone because of their worth. This word has seemed to distinguish women between having power and women that do not. This word makes another women feel better or more high and mighty than someone who is as some may say innocent. I think the main reason why I may have picked this article is because when I was in high school I remember hearing this word most likely used at least once a week. The word SLUT was a common word for high schoolers to use. Today, I am able to look back at those moments and think wow these poor girls, being degraded because of what a guy may say or a girl who may be jealous of her. The word slut when going around a high school defiantly sticks with a girl in her reputation. I remember plenty of girls that I knew deep down would never, and were not as slut but were however being labeled as that because someone wanted to make a rumor about them.  This word needs to be taken more into consideration before being thrown into the air and into someone’s ears to hear. I want to go into detail about why this word is popular to our society.

            The article “When Girls Use the Word ‘Slut’ to Bully Each Other” is pretty much an article to inform you about a campaign that shows that women are very easily and responsible for degrading other women, we as women are bullies to one another. We together are victims to each other. This article states that researchers found that low status women who tried to enter the high status scene risked public slut shamming. To someone that may not understand what this means, this sentence is stating that the higher status women will certainly still have the high social dominance. The higher status women were not known as the sluts. In this passage it states how the higher status women are classy not trashy. This is such a double standard that we women do to each other. We constantly put one another down because why? We are jealous? This topic was so important to publish this because when we hear the word slut as a women, we think a guy is referring it or has said that about us or some other female. When in reality we as women are labeling other women with that term. This subject needs to be known and be addressed.

            This article uses researchers in a college scenery with college women around fifty three of them taking a psychology course. While taking part in this study researchers tracked there social lives of the women who lived on the same campus and same college dorm floor. There was high status girls as well as lower status girls. With that determination that is how they conducted there experiment. The basic results in this study was showing that it did not just have to do with the girl having sex with too many guys. The word slut could have been about the way the female was dressed being to revealing.  The researchers also found that the women with the high social status had more hookups then the lower status girls. However, with stating these statistics the researchers have found the high status women found themselves classy rather than trashy. The lower status girls were then labeled as trashy even though they had less hookups then the higher status girls.

            I feel as though this article has been informative and changed my outlook on this subject. I know for myself I have labeled a girl as a slut without knowing nothing about her. Reading this article had me second guess why I did this. However, I feel like many girls have at some point done this to someone by just judging there appearance. I know now I am wrong for this. The finding in this article “When Girls Use the Word ‘Slut’ to Bully Each Other” are absolutely very powerful to someone who is exploring this subject. Also I feel as though the conclusions of slut shamming was very valid. I one hundred percent agree with the way this article was written as well as the study shown on this topic. We as women need to stick together and stop putting one another down. We are getting nothing out of shamming each other.