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We care about your health Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation," LT: Not exactly. It's true that the school slut may just published by Seven Stories Press. In the exhibit a casual attitude about sex, and she may aftermath of the Columbine murders, "Slut!" in fact be quite promiscuous. But a girl's sexual touches on an issue on the minds of parents and activity is her choice. When a guy is sexually teens alike: adolescent ostracism and cruelty. active, no one stigmatizes him. To the contrary: and your financial health Tanenbaum investigates one particular variety he is congratulated for being a stud. The sexual of adolescent harassment, which she calls "slut- double standard clearly didn't go away with the bashing"-when teenagers label a girl a "slut" sexual revolution. But of the 50 girls and women you are HIV+ and considering selling your life and gang up on her. The "slut" insult, like "fag" I interviewed-all of whom had been targeted as or "dyke," is a way of judging and deriding sluts-the majority of them had "not" actually insurance policy, consider this... someone's sexual status. The irony is that been sexually active. Some of them had never many girls who are called "sluts" aren't sexual- even kissed a boy when they developed their ly active at all, just as many "fags" are simply reputations. As one of the oldest and most knowledgeable skinny boys who can't get the basketball in the A girl might be called a "slut" for a number of hoop and many "dykes" are just girls who refuse reasons. One factor is if she is an early devel- viaticaI settlement brokers, we have the experience to to wear lip gloss, flirt with boys, and wear tight, oper or is just very busty. Another factor is if a cropped tops. girl is a social outsider--if she fails to conform in get you the highest cash settlement possible All of these labels describe kids who don't fit some way (new in school, overweight, a class into gender norms. Magnified by sexual meta- minority, or considered "weird" for whatever rea- through a proven competitive bidding process. We phor, their difference comes to define everything son). Also, a girl might be picked on if she is very M. Bryan Freeman about them. Tanenbaum spent three years inter- attractive and has mthe attention of boys: this work for you, not the buyer. We are your advocate. viewing fifty girls and women from around the causes other girls to envy her, and sometimes founder & Chief Client Advocote country, ages 14 to 66, who were all called they fabricate a rumor of sexual activity to make "sluts" when they were in high school or junior her less popular. Finally, when a girl is raped, high. She spoke with black, Asian, white, Latin either by a stranger or by someone she knows, Return your completed One quick, simple application. girls and women from twelve different states most people are inclined to disbelieve her. They around the U.S. They grew up with different eco- assume that the sex was consensual, and that application and receive nomic levels and with different values in cities, therefore the girl must be a "slut." No cost or obligation at any time. suburbs, and rural towns. On the surface, then, DH: How does being called a "slut" affect a a free videotape: these girls and women have absolutely nothing female? Up to 85% of face value. in common. But there is one uniting characteris- LT: When you are publicly humiliated, you Exercises for tic: They were all stigmatized in sexual terms. develop coping mechanisms. Often these cop- Confidentiality, now and always. Their stories, along with Tanenbaum's own ing mechanisms are unhealthy. Many girls turn People with HIV personal account of how she herself was to alcohol or drugs. Many develop eating prob- May qualify up to 1,000 T-cells. labeled a "slut" in high school, provide evidence lems, especially if their reputations were stirred by People With HIV. that slut-bashing is a real, serious, and preva- up by their physique. Many girls become lent problem. And, as Tanenbaum persuasively severely depressed to the point of contemplat- May be tax-free '- ask us. shows, it has enormous consequences for ing and attempting suicide. Many girls develop a everyone, not only for the girls who are serious hang up about sex that persists into harassed. adulthood. Free brochure: 14 Questions You Must Ask Before Selling Your Life DH: What made you decide to write this book? One ironic consequence is that some girls Insurance Policy. LT: I wanted to let people know about the all-too- actually become more sexually active after common experience of "slut-bashing". Just developing their reputation where they may not about every high school in the country has a have been before. Their feeling is: "Well, if peo- All policies: group (employer or association), individual (term, whole designated "slut." Being known as the school ple are going to assume this about me, then I slut is terrifying: classmates gang up on you, may as well live up to their expectations." Since life, universal), FEGlI, SGlI, VGlI and policies less than two years old. people yell out "slut," "whore," or "bitch" when these girls are initiating sexual activity to prove you walk down the hallway or enter the cafete- a point, they tend to enter into loveless, casual ria. It is a humiliating position to be in and one sexual encounters and often become emotional- that far too many teenage girls-whose self- ly hurt-not to mention the fact that they are ------- esteem may be already suffering-are subjected opening themselves up to the potential dangers -- BENEFITS to.