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  • Hey everyone,

  • I'm sorry I've been gone for so long.

  • I've been working on actually a lot and lot of projects

  • so I had to take a temporary hiatus,

  • but I think I'm back now.

  • So I did have another video for you today

  • but last night, I was on youtube, and I found this video

  • by one of my favourite youtubers, Jenna Marbles.

  • You can look like a slut, act like a slut,

  • but I would only judge you

  • in how many dicks do you put in your body on a regular basis.

  • Someday, I hope maybe you realize that it feels much better

  • when you're just not having so many dicks in you.

  • John Mayer said: "Your body is a Wonderland", but you know what:

  • it's your choice if you want Wonderland to be an exclusive club

  • or if you want Wonderland to be like a theme park

  • where kids get in for free on Saturdays with their canned goods.

  • Jenna girl... Oh my, love you,

  • but man... Now you put me through this!

  • Jenna starts her video with various criticisms of "sluts"

  • but the heart of the video is 3 main ideas:

  • 1) sluts don't respect themselves,

  • 2) respecting yourself means not having "a lot of dicks in you"

  • 3) sluts are really just stupid women

  • and their behaviour doesn't deserve our respect.

  • Anyone can be a slut but it takes some logic to be like:

  • "I think I'm just gonna be with one person."

  • Jenna's video embodies a big fat society-wide problem

  • called slut shaming.

  • This video isn't some personal failing on Jenna's part,

  • so for anyone who thinks I'm trying

  • to bring a Jenna Marbles smack down: sorry.

  • This is a personal failing on behalf of society,

  • that means everybody.

  • And the solution to this big fat society-wide problem

  • is not to scream at each other and attack each other,

  • it's to have a conversation about it, to educate ourselves.

  • So, let's conversate.

  • Slut shaming is when we insult a woman

  • because she expresses her sexuality

  • in a way we don't like or approve of.

  • Historically there was a strong strong demand

  • that women not have sex until they were married.

  • We said: "Women, you don't give away your precious vagina gift

  • until you're under the ownership of a man."

  • We've opened our minds a little bit since then.

  • Now society says: "OK, fine,

  • you're not gonna wait till you're married,

  • you at least better love him."

  • Bottom line throughout the ages

  • is that sluts are "different kinds of girls"

  • who do "bad stuff" and disobey.

  • Because of her "bad behaviour", we reduce her status

  • from human being down to giant fucking whore.

  • And since the "slut" gave up her precious vagina gift,

  • she doesn't get respect anymore, she's in another category now.

  • My friend Charlie Glickman once said to me:

  • "They don't respect sluts, they don't respect women."

  • And I was like: "F*** yes!!"

  • Because if we want to believe that we respect women,

  • that can't be just like: "I only respect women

  • who do sex the way I would do it,

  • who only make sexual choices that I think is cool."

  • Otherwise, all you're saying is: "Home girl,

  • you need to earn my respect

  • by having sex the way I think you should."

  • And honestly, I feel like that's some arrogant bullshit.

  • Because women are taught to spend so much time

  • figuring out how to please everyone else.

  • Women should be figuring out how to please themselves.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • No? Ok... Yeah.

  • Some of the stuff that Jenna mentions

  • actually is probably not such a good idea,

  • like having one night stands without condoms.

  • Use condoms.

  • The thing about bad decisions though is that

  • there are men and women and animals

  • all thoughout the frigging animal kingdom

  • that make stupid ass decisions.

  • That's because we're all stupid.

  • I'm stupid. You're stupid.

  • Let's be real.

  • Humanity is one big fucking stupid party.

  • The difference is that for women,

  • promiscuity is considered a "stupid decision".

  • When you make bad decisions, you pay the consequences.

  • Like loosing everyone's respect, being shamed,

  • being called a slut, being bullied,

  • and perhaps even being assaulted or raped.

  • "Well, pfff, what did you expect?

  • You were being a big whore!"

  • But for dudes, promiscuity is not a"bad decision",

  • promiscuity is a very good decision.

  • And even when guys do make bad decisions...

  • "Pfff... They're dudes!

  • Dudes make bad decisions sometimes,

  • they can't help themselves!"

  • And this, my dear friends,

  • is what sexism looks like.

  • Here are some things

  • that have to do with how much you respect yourself:

  • standing up for yourself, making your own decisions,

  • not putting up with people's bullshit.

  • Things that have nothing to do

  • with how much you respect yourself:

  • what kind of sex you have, what kind of clothes you wear,

  • what kind of make up you put on.

  • Not doing what you're supposed to

  • to be a good respectable woman,

  • does not mean that you lack self respect.

  • It does not make you stupid

  • and it does not reduce you to a whole that people fuck.

  • That's because your value and your worth

  • is not determined by the type of sex that you have.

  • We honestly don't help out women,

  • we don't help out our relationships,

  • we don't help out our friendships by condemning each other

  • and telling each other what to do.

  • Even behaviour we don't understand,

  • it's complicated and there's a reason for it.

  • One of the major things that our society needs to learn ASAP

  • is how to respect other people's safe consensual choices

  • about their lives and about their bodies.

  • And I mean really respect people's choices,

  • not like: "Oh, I'm not judging you..."

  • *silently judging you*

  • That's what I think anyway.

  • And I think that it will help women to stop hating themselves,

  • I think it will help women stop hating each other.

  • So, down with slut shaming.

  • I'll see you guys next time.

Hey everyone,

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