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These are very damning labels and I don't think we men could ever understand the full extent of psychological stress it can cause.
Yes men can, it's the sociological equivalent of being called a faggot. At any rate, women often condemn themselves to such stereotypes and labels. In fact, I hear women enforcing this word more than I hear men enforcing it. In every conversation I've had with women about sex, the world "slut" always comes up, even if I never mention the word, which more often than not, I don't. Most women find it necessary to distinguish themselves from "sluts". The point being, that before the word can be destigmatized, women must stop using the word as a weapon on themselves. I'm not as inclined to buy into the "women's innocence" picture as your posts suggest. It's just like black people and the damn "N word", if you don't want to be considered an "N" stop calling yourself one. Girls have to learn to change their image of themselves before we can have a serious discussion about fixing the problem.
Scientists conducted a study where they put some food on top of a ladder in a room full of monkeys.
When a monkey would try to climb the ladder to get the food, the scientist would punish the monkey in some way (I forgot how, but maybe they sprayed the monkey it with a high-powered water hose or something like that). They would punish any monkey that tried to climb the ladder until the entire group of monkeys was too scared to try to climb it.
They then introduced a new monkey into the room. When the new monkey tried to climb the ladder, do you know what happened?
The rest of the monkeys punished the new monkey by beating it up (or something like that, I'm paraphrasing from memory).
They added another new monkey and it tried to climb the ladder. The rest of the monkeys, INCLUDING THE LAST ONE, all joined in on the ritual of punishing the newest monkey for trying to climb the ladder. Each new monkey ended up becoming indoctrinated into following this stupid ritual.
The monkeys in this experiment are not at fault for being conditioned into following these artificial social rules. They're still victims.
You think men are any more innocent for calling each other faggots? I usually don't hear women using that word to describe men, definitely not as often as men use it.