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Gender critical slut shaming is rank misogyny
In 2025 I was on the receiving end of gender critical attempts to slut shame me for artistic nude photographs I posted fifteen years prior, with them seeking to shut me down because I took pride in my body. It is a common tactic used to tear down any woman who seeks to empower herself through nudes, burlesque or any other expression of her sexuality through taking ownership of her body. July 2026 saw another attempt against another trans woman, this time in the Daily Mail, where a trans woman was nationally shamed simply for expressing her womanhood in a sexy way. These tactics have long been used to shame any woman who falls out of line, and it is telling that gender critics resort to the same tactics used to slut shame feminists and women’s rights activists from centuries past as if they have learnt the worst lessons from patriarchal abuse of women.
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I refuse to be shamed for taking ownership of my body, and if other people like the images I produced that is on them. The same goes for any other woman who through her own agency and choice makes the same decision. It is only when images are scraped, taken…
