Hi, I’m a slut
What?
You can’t be surprised when you’ve spent my entire life deciding woman equals sexualize
In ninth grade, a man told me I have good blowjob eyes
Hi, I’m a slut.
But what does that mean?
I’m unclean, I’m less pure
I sleep around, sure
But isn’t that what you were begging for?
Hi, I'm a slut and science disagrees
But let’s ignore anatomy and joke that my vagina is wide enough to fit an entire football team or, even,
your narcissism
but no one’s is big enough for that
In this poem, the writer Savannah Brown shares her opinion of the sexualizing of women. What is written above is the first verse of the poem. She shared her experience of being sexualized when she was merely 14 years old, and now that she looks back at the memory, she realizes how disgusting people can be; along with how women are seen as objects for sex.
The poem has so much depth about how it's impossible for women in this world to do anything they want, without having a label placed on against them. No matter what a woman does, society buries deep down to find something, or anything to put them down for it. Sleeping around too much? You're a skank, worthless, expected to be rock bottom of all women. Still a virgin by the time you're 25? You're a prude, you can't even bare showing the skin on your neck, but we'll fetishize you anyway.
Savannah Brown covers the struggles of being a woman to this day and age in a sexual way. The more you read the poem, more ideas come into your mind about any struggle of being a woman in any way. From wearing a specific brand of boots and being called "basic" or "generic", to not dating anyone that they're automatically seen to live with several cats for the rest of their lives.
In the slam poem, Savannah Brown also covers the fact that although media uses women in a sexual way, they're also seen as objects. As if nobody cares about what they want as long as they're satisfying the men who dominate them sometimes to the point where it physically hurts. Within the same verse of this statement, she goes over the fact that even in health classes at school, we don't learn about anatomy enough. Especially for females. Which is a terrible fact because it is so incredibly important for women to stay safe and healthy during and after sex, but since we're not really taught how it works, it leaves everyone else using it improperly or even dangerously.
"you think an orgasm for you is like oxygen for me. like when i am going down on you i’m actually sucking up life retrieving my very soul from inside your stomach and an orgasm for me is like—well, maybe. if you have time and since you can’t see it, it probably doesn’t exist anyway, i was probably faking it anyway, women don’t like sex anyway. you’re pretty sure the clitoris is just a myth so when it comes to my pleasure no one really gives a shit."
In what other ways do you think women are sexualized or put down for, for something they should be allowed to do/be? Do you think media and videos leave an unrealistic hope and perspective for the anatomy of both women and both and how they should act?
