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stormswift ([personal profile] stormswift) wrote in [personal profile] zelda_queen 2011-03-07 10:19 pm (UTC)

I know that this is your blog and your review, and I generally enjoy reading your sporkings. However. Can I ask that you stop referring to characters as "sluts" and "whores"?

There's plenty of slut-shaming in the book. It's ugly and ignorant behavior, and I understand when it pops up in your sporking in the context of the book. However, when your independent commentary refers to Zoey or Aphrodite as a whore, you're debasing yourself to the level of the characters that you purport to hate.

Please, there are other ways of expressing your dislike of female characters than using gendered, sex-shaming language. I find it uncomfortable and distasteful to read.

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