Written by Michaela Deane View this authors Twitter page and posted in opinion. This is an opinion of a young person and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of SpunOut. It is one person's experience and may be different for you. If you'd like to write something for SpunOut. So slutty. What a slut. And this my friends, is slut-shaming. When I was fifteen and going through my boy-mad stage, it was probably my favourite adjective of all time for all the girls who got in the way of my relationships.
But when I started to think about the meaning behind what I was saying, I stopped. You kissed an older guy? You wear a short dress? The girl was photographed performing oral sex on two different men, and the photos exploded onto Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr, a video even went up on Youtube. Which is exactly my point; she could have been under the influence of alcohol, could have had her drink spiked, anything could have happened.
Yet society chose to ignore this and go straight to abusing the girl for her mistake. Luckily for this girl, she pulled through the bullying and harassment that followed her after this event. Rehtaeh Parsons was a Canadian girl who died on the 7th of April , aged just Her death has been attributed to photographs being leaked online of an alleged gang rape that occurred before her suicide, in November She said that one of Parsons's friends claimed Parsons was "flirtatious" on the night the photo was taken and was seen laughing in bed with two boys, and also that there were "accounts from Rehtaeh herself and independent evidence, including retrieved online messages, that supported the suggestion the sex that took place was consensual.
That is not called consensual sex. That is called rape. A lot of us are more familiar with the story of Amanda Todd, whose story went viral after her death on October 12th, The young girl had posted a video on Youtube previously, discussing how she was blackmailed after exposing her breasts online through webcam, and subsequently bullied and harassed because of it.
After being informed by the police that the image was circulating the internet, her family moved home and she began to experiment with alcohol and drugs. After a year this photo resurfaced, and Amanda was forced to move schools once again. In her nine minute Youtube video, she talks about how after this an old guy friend invited her over to his house. They had sex while his girlfriend was away. After this, the boy's girlfriend and a group of over 10 others confronted Amanda at school, where they shouted insults at her and she was physically attacked by the girlfriend.
