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6->'''Dorothy:''' Rose, what do you call a girl who's slept with a man she's known for less than one day?\
7'''Blanche:''' A damn good sport?\
8'''Dorothy:''' I call her a ''tramp''.
9-->-- ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''
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11Slut-shaming is the act of making someone feel bad for their promiscuity, by linking higher promiscuity with lower worth as a human being.
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13Slut-shaming is directed [[MyGirlIsNotASlut against women far more often than against men]], not least because of the cultural perception that sex is something [[MenActWomenAre men do]] ''to'' [[AllWomenArePrudes women]]. Thus, one 19th/20th-century Sino-European DoubleStandard holds that a man who has sex [[ImAManICantHelpIt is just "being a man"]], whereas a woman who has sex is DefiledForever — a font of moral corruption who [[TheCorrupter will make the people around her]] lazy hedonists. Yet, the men are often free to [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny admire or even have sex with the "sluts" while despising them at the same time]]. An alternative view, extant since the 19th century, is that because men are sometimes seen as [[AllMenArePerverts innately slutty]], calling one a slut doesn't mean much.
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15Although the slut stereotype is not commonly applied to men (at least straight men — stereotypes/stigma associated with women are often also applied to men who have sex with men), that is not to say that it cannot or does not directly harm them as well. For example, if [[AManIsAlwaysEager men are always willing to have sex]], then [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale a man can't be sexually assaulted, because how could he not want it]] (or he "must be gay" [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale if the rapist is a man]])? Indeed, a man who is shamed for sexual promiscuity is more likely to be painted as a predator than as a slut.
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17"Higher promiscuity" is extremely relative from one society to another, and often from one person to another, depending on age, race, class, etc. What you wear, how you act, what you do, ''whom'' you do, all of them can be ammunition against you. Usually the basis of the accusations (or allegations) of sluttiness are:
18* Thinking about sexual matters.
19* Discussing sexual matters.
20* Having sexual desires.
21* Owning or using [[ValuesDissonance 'sexy' things]], like clothing[[note]]Where folk draw the line on this one varies, as per the [[FullyClothedNudity "whoops, my ankle's showing"]] dilemma[[/note]], as this may encourage sexual thoughts or desires.
22* [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Appearing in the nude]] or [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoying]] [[MaleFRontalNudity nudity]]. [[note]][[WesternAnimation/MoralOrel Eleventh Commandment]]: Thou shalt be ashamed of thy natural anatomy[[/note]] One should only be naked when it's really necessary.
23* [[BeautyIsBad Having physical characteristics that members of the opposite sex find appealing.]] That's called [[http://www.recoveringgrace.org/2014/02/defrauding-what-does-it-mean "defrauding"]], being a [[http://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2018/08/early-puberty-big-bust-shame "stumbling block"]], or putting others in an "occasion of sin" (inspiring lust in others). Never mind that one [[InsaneTrollLogic can't help how they develop]].
24* [[SelfAbuse Masturbating]].
25* Choosing inappropriate sexual partners.
26* Doin' it.
27''These next ones don't count as long as you only do them with your wife/husband.''
28* Having sex. (Though [[ValuesDissonance in some circles]], it might be considered shameful even in the context of marriage if you enjoy it, or have it for reasons other than [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland procreation or "spousal duty."]])
29* Being or getting someone pregnant. However, after [[BabiesEverAfter having 2-4 kids]], both the husband and wife should [[SexlessMarriage outgrow sexual intimacy]].
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31Characters will heroically engage in Slut-Shaming in works that play the MyGirlIsNotASlut trope straight, whereas Slut-Shaming will be played unsympathetically in works that insist promiscuity is good and say MyGirlIsASlut.
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33This attitude can get especially nasty when it overlaps with cases of sexual assault, frequently overlapping with BlamingTheVictim or DefiledForever (it often manifests as people claiming a victim had it coming or that they weren't ''really'' assaulted because they have lots of consensual sexual partners, were dressed a certain way, and so on; sadly, it's TruthInTelevision that victims of sexual assault may be disbelieved, or the gravity of the crime gets downplayed, because of their sexual history).
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35Those who engage in Slut-Shaming doubt the existence of the EthicalSlut and often are portrayed as MoralGuardians who insist SexIsEvil. SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains is a form of sister trope. See also MadonnaWhoreComplex, SuccessThroughSexAccusation, MyGirlIsNotASlut and UrbanLegendLoveLife. Characters who are SourPrudes and/or have a case of SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny are likely to engage in slut-shaming behavior. Compare AllMenArePerverts and AllWomenAreLustful, which when applied judgmentally can be considered a society-wide form of slut-shaming leveled against an entire gender. It may play a role in a character deciding to BlameTheParamour if they get cheated on, particularly if it's a man cheating on his wife or girlfriend with another woman. Contrast VirginShaming, which is when a character is ridiculed for being a virgin instead of for ''not'' being one. (However, the two tropes can overlap, [[InsaneTrollLogic in defiance of all logic and reason]].)
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37[[noreallife]]
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39'''Note:''' Please refrain from VirginShaming when adding examples. If people can pursue casual sexual experiences without being judged, they should also be able to choose abstinence without being labelled a "prude".
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42!!Example subpages:
43[[index]]
44* SlutShaming/{{Literature}}
45* SlutShaming/LiveActionTV
46[[/index]]
47
48!!Other examples:
49[[foldercontrol]]
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51[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
52* Pretty much everyone in ''Manga/BitterVirgin'' who finds out that Hinako [[spoiler:was raped by her stepfather and had a baby by him]] worries that Daisuke (her love interest) will consider her DefiledForever, unaware he has known since the start. Later, when Daisuke's sister comes home pregnant and unwed, most of the town (including the mother) think the sister was shameful and slutty. In both cases, the manga treats the women as sympathetic — Hinako's experience is traumatic and Daisuke never thinks badly of her for it, and his sister is shown as being intelligent and friendly. Meanwhile, the mother comes around to accepting her grandchild and the people engaging in the Slut-Shaming are portrayed as being ignorant.
53* ''Manga/BoysRunTheRiot'': Ryo was bullied by two girls in middle school for seemingly being a girl who was close friends with boys, receiving cruel notes in his locker accusing him of sleeping with his friends. The attention was bad enough for Ryo's friends to stop being friends with him.
54* ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'': AlphaBitch Aira starts a rumor about Momo being "easy" as payback for Momo getting snarky with her for making fun of Okarun. Okarun shuts that down the moment he hears about it by transforming and threatening to beat up one of the boys passing it around.
55* In ''Manga/{{DNA2}}'', Mako ''tries'' to get Kotomi slut-shamed and hence barred from taking part in an important tournament by stating that she had spent the last night in a LoveHotel with her boyfriend since she had seen the two leave the redlight district the evening before. Since Kotomi stands up to her and asks if Mako has any proof, everyone immediately knows that Mako was lying.
56* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Tohru's aunt, uncle, and cousin strongly imply that she was sleeping around and/or molested by the Sohma men she was staying with (granted finding out a high school girl was living with three unrelated men wouldn't be taken well by many people, but the Sohmas were perfectly respectable towards her and the relatives were clearly ''mocking'' poor Tohru). They also accuse her mother of being wanton and a slut, because she'd been in a biker gang in her youth. When Kyo and Yuki come to retrieve her, Tohru's cousin recognizes them as "the two guys the little tramp was shacking up with." In response, Yuki, in full TranquilFury mode, gets in his face, calls him a lowlife, and warns him to ''never'' talk about Tohru like that again, leaving Tohru's cuz speechless.
57* Fasalina from ''Anime/GunXSword'' does this to ''herself'', hating herself for being a former prostitute/pole dancer. She supports the Claw's agenda thinking it's the best way to atone for her "sins". The only other person who uses her past against her is Ray, who is portrayed as a {{Jerkass}} for most of the series, but being [[NominalHero 'the good guy']] while Fasalina herself is an AffablyEvil DarkActionGirl.
58* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Reina's classmates badmouth her because she's a magazine model and [[MaliciousSlander has to be doing all kinds of things there]] with no basis.
59* In ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', Gilbert is subjected to this by other students in his school. It is also a part of the discrimination against Serge's Romani mother Paiva, which has become something of a BerserkButton for Serge himself.
60* ''Manga/MakenKi'': [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in chapter 111. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Love Espada]] gets confronted by apparitions of male students who call her a whore for always tempting them with her body, yet never allowing them to screw her. But instead of being offended by the accusation, it turns her on, prompting Espada to let them bang her right then and there. Except [[OutWithABang they dissipate]] just as they were about to get started.
61* In ''Literature/{{MM}}'', Yuno Arashiko developed androphobia after her boyfriend tried to rape her, and then severely beat her when she scratched him in defense; what hurt worst though was the way people treated her after she recovered because he'd been spreading rumors about her and convinced everyone that she was a slut.
62* ''Anime/PerfectBlue'': Mima's public image takes a beating after she appears in a SleazyPhotoshoot and the photos are published in a magazine.
63* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': Kurumu is absolutely pissed and decides ItsPersonal when Keito calls her a "dumb slutty airhead" to her face.
64* At the start of ''Manga/MyLoveStory'', Yamato gets groped by a [[TheChikan chikan]] on the train. After Takeo confronts the man, the guy tries to put the blame on Yamato for wearing a skirt (which is a part of her school uniform). Takeo doesn't have any of it and punches him.
65* ''Manga/MyWifeIsTheStudentCouncilPresident'': In episode 4, Rin tells Izumi the real reason she joined the school's disciplinary committee. It was to dispel the rumors that she allegedly used [[BuxomBeautyStandard her large breasts]] to steal another's girl's boyfriend. The truth of the matter was, it was unintentional since Rin wasn't aware of him until after the breakup and she still turned him down.
66* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', Elena, an Executor, slut-shamed Rio, a much younger artificer, for wearing revealing clothing, perhaps unaware or uncaring of the fact that Rio didn't like it, but was forced to do so by her DirtyOldMan client Executor Zoucheng, lest he prevents her from selling her tools. In the anime, Elena invites Rio to a party in order to humiliate her. Elena dislikes Rio so much that she callously refuses to save Rio's mother from a spirit just because Elena views Rio as a "trashy woman." Naturally, all these developments cause Elena to come off as an AssholeVictim in retrospect.
67* In ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', Kotonoha Katsura [[BuxomBeautyStandard attracts unwanted attention towards her breast size]] leading to her getting bullied by other girls on a regular basis.
68* In ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'', Camilla, one of the women Yor works with, tries to shame her at a party by claiming that she would give "massages" to men when she was younger. Yor is initially terrified, as she can't admit that those "massages" were [[DeadlyEuphemism a cover for her actual job as an assassin]]. However, Loid [[InsultBackfire actually proclaims it to be admirable of her]], as he knows that [[PromotionToParent Yor had no parents and had to raise her brother and herself on her own]]--in his view, the fact that she was willing to take part in degrading work for the people she loves is a sign of how dedicated she is.
69* In [[{{Manga/YanchaGalNoAnjou-san}} Yancha Gal no Anjou-san]] this is a regular occurrence for the titular character, with people either shaming her for the way she dresses, or assuming she's easy because of the same.
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73* Jim Jefferies, in one of his routines, argues that the common DoubleStandard in which women are more often shamed for promiscuity than men isn't as unfair as it sounds. The reason men get praised for promiscuity is that for them it's an accomplishment, while for women, "To be a slut you just have to be ''there''". In his words, "It's fuckin' easy to be a slut. It's fuckin' hard to be a stud", and "You can be a fat ugly slut. There are no fat ugly studs."
74* Dan Cummins discusses double-standards of parenting, pointing out that some fathers are excited for their sons for "having fun" in college, but no fathers ever talk that way about their daughters.
75* Creator/EdByrne argues that slut-shaming men are self-defeating, as they cause women to feel bad about having sex and fear "getting a reputation," which causes men (including himself) to get turned down by those women.
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78[[folder:Comic Books]]
79* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Both Veronica and Cheryl Blossom have been criticized many times by other characters for dressing too provocatively, being too flirtatious or 'easy', and going out with too many boys. Usually, the story will cast the girls in a bad light for this (worse than for male casanovas like Archie) and often punish them at the end.
80* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'', the Scarlet Witch does this to Rogue, at one point calling Rogue one of her father's floozies. She brings up the relationship not in a way to necessarily shame Rogue for her "promiscuity" (especially since Rogue's powers make physical relationships difficult) but to remind her that she isn't exactly pure and noble herself, having a relationship with the X-Men's worst enemy.
81* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': Gender inverted. Oliver Queen is often insulted and bashed for cheating on ComicBook/BlackCanary. The problem? He didn't exactly cheat on her, he was ''[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped]]''. Afterward, they did turn him into a regular womanizer in order to retroactively justify this.
82* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': Gender inverted. Dick Grayson is considered by some to be a slut and horribly promiscuous due to being portrayed as a womanizer by some writers. This leads to the same fans dismissing the scene in which he was raped by Tarantula, with the reasoning that he was a man and must have ''wanted'' sex from her, even though he clearly refused and begged her to stop. Years earlier, fellow Titan Mirage had committed [[BedTrick rape-by-fraud]] by taking on Starfire's appearance, who at the time was Dick's girlfriend. When called on what she did, Mirage simply joked that Dick should've known something was off, and Pantha jokingly referred to Dick as a slut.
83* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
84** Nico has a dream where her parents berate her for being a "shameless whore" for "kissing" and "being with" multiple boys. Nico calls them out on the double standard, pointing out that her father probably dated women before her mother, and that she isn't going to listen to them. Given that Nico earlier expressed discomfort and shame over her tendency to use physical intimacy to cope with grief, the scene likely shows her overcoming her issues. Interestingly, Nico is the only one to think that way. No one else thinks badly of her for what she does.
85** In an arc where the group ends up in the 1800s, Victor falls in love with a lower-class girl named Lilli, who is very physically affectionate with him, by way of hugging, kissing, and being open about loving him. Nico later says of them, "She's a ho and you're a toaster. Let's just go." She later admits that she did want to let them be together because she knew they really were in love, and her line was probably because [[spoiler:she had just recovered from being tortured by an ancestor.]]
86* ''ComicBook/SexCriminals'': Middle-school girl Suzie tries to get advice about sex from the group of 'dirty girls', but in a twist, ''she's'' the one who's ashamed to talk to ''them''.
87* ''ComicBook/SilentHill'': In the ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' comic "Anne's Story," the doll slut-shames Anne for having an affair. The doll actually represents Anne's feeling of guilt for having the affair, although the only reason she did was that she wanted Murphy transferred to her prison and the warden wanted her to have sex with him in return.
88%%* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson's sexual history was often brought up as a way to disparage her or argue that she wasn't an appropriate match for Peter. Common examples being her time as a supermodel or an actress, arguing she is "Too pretty" to be with someone like Peter, equating her flirtatious behavior towards the opposite sex to indicate that she was promiscuous and slept around, and implying that she cheated on Peter the night before their wedding because she got a ride from a guy and got out of the passenger side of the car. This ignores the fact that Peter and MJ were set up by their aunts in college long before MJ became famous, that Peter has had more on-panel sexual partners than Mary Jane has had, and that Peter even had an affair with a married woman. And yet MJ's sexual confidence in her abilities has her derided as a slut and not wholesome enough for Peter.
89* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ComicBook/LoisLane deals with the aftermath of a picture of her and Superman kissing gets released. While Lois and Clark are walking down the street, he hears someone call her a "slut". She tells him there's nothing they can do about it and to just let it go. He's upset that she's the one catching the brunt of it to which she replies of course ''she's'' getting the brunt of it, not him.
90* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': WordOfGod confirms that the first Terra was shown in a sexual relationship with ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} specifically to emphasize how evil she was by showing what a slut she was, despite there being no evidence that she ever slept with anyone else. Add to that the fact that she was 16 while Deathstroke is significantly older, and it crosses into QuestionableConsent territory since technically ''Deathstroke'' is the one who's emotionally manipulating a 16-year-old girl. Later, Slade actually gets written as an AntiHero while ''Terra'' is the one who eventually dies.
91* ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'': Loki gets into this against both Freya and Sif in ''Freya's Necklace'' and ''The Gifts for the Gods'' respectively, describing both of them as 'easy' to vilify them. The end of ''Freya's Necklace'' implies that this is psychological projection on Loki's part, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood as he assumes everyone is as crooked as he is and thus anyone who shows sexual interest towards anyone is only doing it to be manipulative and would do it to anyone]].
92* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'', Pamela Smuthers verbally attacks Etta for supposedly "stealing" her boyfriend and being involved with too many boys at a college party. Etta is upset but doesn't feel she did anything wrong, especially since she turned down Pam's boyfriend and isn't interested in him.
93* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': The Second series avoids this in-universe — Kate Bishop dismisses the idea that going to bed with a guy on the first date makes her a slut — but faces it in real life — apparently the angry letter from issue #3, that was accusing both Kate and Noh-Varr of not being role models and saying having sex makes them "instantly unlikable" was actually one of the few printable letters and one of few not trying to put all the blame on her. Creator/KieronGillen addressed the thing on his Tumblr and made it clear that not only he disagrees with this line of thinking, but it personally offends him.
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98* [[AlphaBitch Tiffany]] from ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'' tends to get this from Luann a lot; the go-to insult is some variation on "Tiffany is dating the entire football team." Interestingly enough, Tiffany has less sexual experience than Luann or any of her friends; she's never had a boyfriend or even properly kissed anyone (she gave one person a quick peck on the mouth and another a peck on the cheek, but that's it.) Doesn't stop Luann from constantly implying that Tiffany is the [[ReallyGetsAround village bicycle]] though, even after Tiffany receives some CharacterDevelopment and becomes friendlier with the main characters.
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101[[folder:Fan Works]]
102* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheStalkingZukoSeries'', Jet constantly puts down Jin and calls her a shameless hussy for flirting with Zuko. Although this is subverted in the fic itself as it's supposed to emphasize Jet's [[UnreliableNarrator irrationality]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]].
103* ''FanFic/YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMeTrixieBelden'', seems to exist for the sole purpose of Slut-Shaming Dot and [[MadonnaWhoreComplex rendering her deplorable due to her sexuality]].
104* One of the most uncomfortable moments in ''FanFic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'' comes after [[spoiler:Lavender]] is raped. Neville sits her down and tells her that he knows all the rumors about her sexuality are false, even if she is a flirt, because he knows she doesn't sleep around. The end result is that he sounds very, very much like he's saying she would ''deserve'' to be raped if she did sleep around.
105* In ''Fanfic/ChristianGreyVsPepperPotts'', Ana manages to stun Rogue by insisting that Christian Grey was completely innocent of any wrongdoing in his stalking and attempted rape of Pepper, and that ''Pepper'' must have been leading him on and trying to use his love of BDSM to smear his reputation.
106* Lacey French (Belle) in ''Fanfic/FreezeOnTheStones'' suffers from this due to having a child out of wedlock (or so everyone thinks; her daughter was actually born in a happy marriage, but the Dark Curse changed everyone's memories). Her father kicks her out when she refuses to marry Tony Rose (Gaston) to save face. Later she moves in with Mr. Gold (her husband in the Fairy Tale world) as his live-in maid, and everyone starts to believe that she's actually his kept woman. Then [[spoiler: the horrible rumors about her and Gold lead Child Protective Services to try to take her daughter away on trumped up charges of neglect]].
107* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheWindingRoad'' gives us a deconstruction for a backstory. Elaine Lyman ran away from her controlling parents at the age of eighteen and returned pregnant a year later with nowhere to go. Elaine was already a wild child, but this convinced those around her (particularly her rich and conservative parents) that she was unworthy of any real help for her situation besides giving her an apartment far away from them and hoping she'd eventually better herself. Instead of helping her, it led to Elaine being stripped of any confidence she had and considering herself an unworthy mother to her child. Her depression then led to alcohol abuse (and even to her possibly taking drugs), which increased her financial problems, which decreased her self-worth--making it a vicious cycle. By the present, Elaine is a psychological wreck whose daughter Edith has been forced to take care of both her mother and herself for years because Elaine is so depressed and sick she can barely get up in the morning, and Elaine's parents only make contact with their granddaughter once a month for a day trip, completely excluding their daughter altogether. Edith herself is ostracized from her peers and authority figures because of her mother's reputation.
108* Played with in ''"Batteries"'', as Ryuuko is noted to be a stripper and a prostitute but, generally, the story treats her as a flawed but complex person with issues who resorted to those things to provide for herself. Likewise, the other characters see her someone as who needs help and really wants to help her, worrying about her well- being, and, like Satsuki, would like her to come home, while Nonon goes so far as to call her "the Hoe" in one chapter, to which she's called out on.
109* From what's implied in ''Foundling'', Yukari was on the receiving end of this, as she used to be prostitute, considering that the word, "baita" translates to "whore". From what's implied, this is one of the reasons why she doesn't usually leave her house.
110* ''WebVideo/PopCulture'': Cassie ended up mocked and shamed online after revealing to the public that her managers had enabled her drug addiction and routinely raped her for years. It ends up driving her to suicide.
111* ''Fanfic/FrozenFractals'':
112** After seeing Anna kiss Karl despite barely knowing him, a jealous Elsa gets angry and asks if Anna kissed Hans like that (or more). She apologizes for outburst later.
113** After he drops his nice facade, Karl displays this towards Anna. He comments on how she often accidentally leaves the door ajar while undressing and wonders how she can "pretend" to reject his advances.
114* Angela receives much of this in ''Fanfic/HerScarletLetter'' when she becomes pregnant with [[spoiler:Chase's]] child from an affair. Her former friends bully and ostracize her for having a baby with a married man, while still being married to her estranged husband Jin as well.
115* ''Fanfic/MaybeSproutWings'': Dean's history is littered with this, and part of his therapy is letting go of the self-loathing that resulted from it.
116* ''Fanfic/BlindCourage'': The king's advisors don't have any qualms with calling the princess a "whore" to her face after she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. They're predominantly upset because they had been trying to set up an ArrangedMarriage for Zelda. Zelda ends up exiled, and her death faked, because she refuses to abort the baby.
117* Minx in ''Fanfic/{{Undertow}}'' fears people shaming her if she comes out about an AttemptedRape. She worries others might claim that she "asked for it".
118* In ''Fanfic/RipHerToShreds'', middle schoolers Gretchen and Regina judge their friend Karen for having broken up with three boyfriends over winter break.
119* In the ''Series/ASongOfIceAndFire'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17365322/chapters/40862030 The Blacks & The Greens]]'', much as in the example listed in the "Literature" folder, Rhaenyra Targaryen's detractors accuse her of being a whore, despite the fact that in this incarnation, she's only ever been married to Daemon and the paternity of her children is by no means in question. It is known by numerous high ranking people that she was found in bed with Daemon before they were married, but that's the extent of it. [[EvilStepmother Alicent]] still has the nerve to insist Rhaenyra's behavior was [[DoubleStandard somehow worse]] than her own son Aegon's after Aegon is discovered having casual, meaningless sex with a servant and visiting whorehouses.
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123* ''Film/SixtyEightKill'': Liza speaks contemptuously of Violet as a slut (she was actually [[SexualExtortion coerced into sex]]) and uses it as justification for devaluing her completely (never mind that Liza'd been [[{{Hypocrite}} a sugar baby willingly]] herself).
124* ''Film/ALAventure'': Fred angrily calls Sandrine a slut twice, for masturbating after they had unsatisfying sex and then when she confesses she's cheated on him.
125* In ''Film/AnotherTimeAnotherPlace'', the other locals regard Else, one of the farmer's servants, as [[ReallyGetsAround the village bicycle]] for being caught ''in flagrante'' on one occasion.
126* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': After a Website/{{YouTube}} video of her giving Marcus a blowjob at a Halloween Party is shown, Kylie is seen as a whore by everyone at her school, and is shunned and bullied by her classmates.
127* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'':
128** When his student Franka hits on him after noticing he'd been watching her during gym class, Andi rejects her and cruelly says it was only because she'd been "flaunting" herself. She'd really done no such thing, just exercising in her gym clothing like everyone else.
129** Later, when his coworker Jana is friendly to him at a party, he asks her if her husband approves of her throwing herself at men that way, leaving her confused and upset, and asking him to leave.
130* In ''Film/BlackDeath'', the protagonists scream "whore!" at the matriarch of an isolated village after she has them drugged and imprisoned (after they'd actually come to her village in the first place in order to hunt down and torture perceived witches). What makes it particularly hypocritical is that at no point during the film does she ''ever'' do anything that could be viewed as ''remotely'' "slutty" — even by the most exacting [[DoubleStandard double standards]]. She never seduces anyone, she never takes her clothes off, she doesn't even flirt with anyone or show an inordinate amount of skin. Thanks to DeliberateValuesDissonance, "whore" is just the default choice for insulting a woman regardless of anything she says or does. It really was the gravest insult to any woman throughout the Middle Ages. In fact, unfounded slandering like that could be subject to legal prosecution (especially if it came from another woman).
131* ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'': Delaney tells Rebecca she'll have difficulty as the local citizens who form the jury are conservative and thus strongly disapprove of her unapologetic sex life. He manages to get her off despite this, but the narrative seems to enforce this as she really did do it.
132* In ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'', after Rocco's little temper tantrum at the diner (in which he kills three guys working for his old bosses) he goes nuts and tells everyone to "pack their shit", and screams at his roommate and her friend when they interrupt him about the cat he killed. When the friend calls him out for screaming at the roommate, he points the gun at her and tells her to "Shut your fat ass, Rayvie! I can't buy a pack of smokes without running into nine guys you've fucked!" Grade A slut-shaming. Pointless, insulting, and meant to control.
133* ''Film/BornInTheMaelstrom'': Rebecca is angrily denounced as a slut by the women in her community as a result of wearing a shirt she made thin enough [[VaporWear to clearly display her breasts underneath]].
134* ''{{Film/Cracks}}'': Di refuses to believe Miss G did anything wrong with Flamma at first. Rather, she accuses Flamma of being a slut who seduced Miss G. This leads to her and the other girls attacking Flamma.
135* Creator/KatDennings' character Caroline in ''Film/DaydreamNation'' gets this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jwa4wXtNjo She comes back epically:]]
136-->'''Jenny:''' Ugh, slut.\
137'''Caroline Wexler:''' What did you call me?\
138'''Jenny:''' I think I just called you a slut, slut.\
139'''Caroline Wexler:''' Why?\
140'''Jenny:''' Because everyone knows that you've banged, like, forty different guys since you came here.\
141'''Caroline Wexler:''' Really? Forty? Okay, let's just say that I have banged forty guys. What's the problem? You're just jealous because you've been brainwashed by puritanical assholes who think sex is a sin. But then again, your little gerbil-sized brain has been reprogrammed by the media to believe that sex is the be-all, end-all. So now you're stuck, right? 'Cause on the one hand you love to fuck, but afterwards, you feel overwhelmed by guilt and you're not sure why. Maybe it's because sex is neither as good or as evil as you've built it up to be.
142* ''Film/DearZindagi'': Subverted. Kaira admits to her therapist Jug that she had more than one guy in her life before marriage and then immediately gets defensive at his response, accusing him of seeing her as a cheap slut. It is apparent, however, that Kaira is thinking this of herself, and Jug gives a comforting metaphor about needing to try out several options before settling on a life partner and not to worry about societal criticism.
143* ''Film/EasyA'' is built around this trope: the protagonist pretends to have had sex once, and when the whole school starts to slut-shame her for not being a virgin she decides to make the most of it.
144* ''Film/TheException'': Hermine says Mieke is a common slut when she's caught with Brandt in her room, and must be dismissed from their service. At least she's even-handed enough to say Brandt disgraced his uniform doing this too.
145* ''Film/Flower2017'': Erica gets into a CatFight with a popular girl at school who calls her a slut and makes fun of her dad in jail.
146* ''Film/GiantLittleOnes'': Natasha suffers this at school to the point where she's completely ostracized. It's later revealed that she was actually sexually assaulted and has been isolated due to misinformation.
147* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': After exposing a couple in front of the commune's population for having extramarital sex, Johnson decrees as punishment that the exposed woman will have sex with a man of Johnson's choice ''in front of everybody''. The punishment for the exposed man? To have sex in front of everybody... ''with another man''.
148* ''Film/HollySleptOver'': Audra says Holly is a tramp negatively while complaining about her to Noel when they're talking early on.
149* ''Film/IndiaSweetsAndSpices'': The aunties talk disapprovingly of how Alia sees a lot of boys, and what a shame it is. Later a couple other Indian girls also call her a slut after she tells off them both. Alia isn't fazed.
150* ''Film/IronMan1'': Pepper Potts use this as revenge in her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first scene]], when [[ReallyGetsAround Tony's]] latest flame insults her position. Considering the fact that she slept with him just after she met him because he was a millionaire and she insulted Potts for not being a fling like her, this is understandable.
151-->'''Pepper:''' I have your clothes, freshly dry cleaned, and there is a car waiting out the front to take you anywhere you want.\
152'''Everheart:''' You must be the famous Pepper Potts. After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.\
153'''Pepper:''' I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including, occasionally, taking out the trash. Will that be all?
154** This continues in ''Film/IronMan2'' with the same reporter moving in on Tony's competitor Justin Hammer. Pepper mentions the reporter's "spread" on Tony in the first film. [[HypocriticalHumor Tony, of all people,]] gets in on it too, noticing the pattern, adding that "She also wrote an article."
155* In ''[[Film/It2017 It: Chapter One]]'', the young Beverly Marsh is SoBeautifulItsACurse, getting unwanted attention and an undeserved reputation as a slut.
156* ''Film/LosingIsaiah'': Implied when the Lewins' lawyer notes that Khaila, as she'd been a prostitute to buy drugs, had slept with many men and thus has no idea who her son's birth father was.
157* ''Film/TheLover''. Although [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom no-one confronts her directly]] about her scandalous interracial affair, the Girl finds herself ostracised at school.
158-->'''The Girl:''' They say I'm a slut, who goes to the shady part of town to have her body fondled by a Chinaman.
159-->'''The Chinaman:''' It's nothing.
160-->'''The Girl:''' That's true, [[ItDoesntMeanAnything it's nothing.]]
161* In ''Film/LuckyBastard'', [[SingleMomStripper single mom/porn star]] Ashley finds herself [[spoiler:tied up and AloneWithThePsycho]]; when he tauntingly asks what her kids will think when they find out what she does, she bravely retorts "They'll think I'm a mom... who loved her kids."
162* All the girls in ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'' are sent to the laundry because of this. Margaret was raped at a party, Rose and Crispina both had babies while unmarried, and Bernadette (although still a virgin) is ''pre-emptively'' judged a slut for her beauty and flirtation with boys.
163* Throughout ''Film/MeanGirls'', the insults "slut" and "whore" are thrown around like they're going out of style. At the end, Ms. Norbury tells the girls, "You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores."
164* ''{{Film/MFA}}'': Lindsey, a victim of gang rape, was branded as a slut, with people claiming that she'd really engaged in consensual group sex with her rapists, and it's specifically noted many of those saying it were women, even some so-called friends. It was used to undermine her credibility while they were tried for raping her. All were acquitted, in part due to this.
165* Olive insults Nymphy Norah's promiscuity before their {{Catfight}} in ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses'':
166-->'''Olive''': Oh, she'll take it awf for you, she does for every other bloke.
167* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'':
168** Ophelia is negatively judged and gossiped about due to Hamlet's blatant interest in her, as well as rumors she was seen cavorting about with a peasant boy [[spoiler:(actually Hamlet in disguise)]]. Gertrude even calls Ophelia ungrateful for 'debasing' herself in such a way after she took her in (which is rather {{hypocrit|e}}ical, given the implication she had an affair with Claudius while still married to King Hamlet and married him not long after her first husband was buried).
169** Mechtild reveals to Ophelia that part of the reason she was branded a witch and forced to go into hiding was because she got pregnant out of wedlock.
170* Vivian in ''Film/PrettyWoman'' escapes this from her main client, but civilized society views her as "trashy" and his friend clearly forgets that she's a person and not a sex object once he learns that she's a prostitute.
171* ''Film/{{The Princess|2022}}'': Moira, Julius' mistress, is called a whore and useless by one of his soldiers. She kills him for the foolish remark immediately.
172* ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'':
173** The dean intimates that Nina brought her rape on herself for being promiscuous and being drunk while around men, saying women are partly to blame when they put themselves in vulnerable situations.
174** Jordan guiltily admits that while working as a defense lawyer defending accused rapists he'd use any dirt they could dig up about the accuser's sexual past to intimidate them into dropping complaints, saying at his firm they had a team for just that (while noting the Internet has made it easier than ever).
175* When Amber is caught stealing footage from the network in ''Film/TheRunningMan'', she is thrown into the gamezone with Richards as punishment. In order to vilify her, the LargeHamAnnouncer states that she would sometimes have sex with as many as two or three different men in a year.
176* Maureen Prescott of the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' franchise was murdered before the first film began, with her lover Cotton Wearey being framed for the crime. Except for Maureen's daughter Sidney and her husband, everyone else refers to Maureen [[NoSympathy as a homewrecking slut]] who slept around "like she was Sharon Stone." [[spoiler:It turns out three of the first five Ghostfaces, Billy Loomis, Billy's mother, and Roman Bridger are all pissed off by Maureen and motivated by their hatred of her. Billy was goaded into murdering Maureen because she slept with his father and drove his mom away. Mrs. Loomis wanted to kill Sidney for killing her son ''and'' for Maureen sleeping with her husband, and Roman manipulated Billy into killing Maureen because she rejected him as the child born from her being raped by producer John Milton. The third movie eventually revealed that Maureen's promiscuity was a result of trauma from being gang-raped when she was trying to be an actress, and showed that even if she was a very flawed person she didn't deserve to be murdered and had understandable reasons for why she acted the way she did.]]
177* ''Film/ShallWePlay'': Matt and his friends put Slut on Stacy's belly in marker while she's out to humiliate her, though ironically it's actually because she'd ''refused'' to have sex with him when drunk, as they clearly view it as the most cutting insult for her regardless of her behavior. After she gets angry with him for this, Matt says she's a slut to her face too.
178* ''Film/ShivaBaby'': Maya calls Danielle a "[[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] whore" after finding out she's a sugar baby.
179* ''Film/ShowMeLove'': Elin has quite the reputation for [[UrbanLegendLoveLife being promiscuous]], despite being only 14 and never actually seen going beyond flirting, with others disparaging her as a result. Johan is rather surprised to find out she was a virgin after their first time.
180* ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'':
181** Walt is rather judgmental about his girlfriend's sexuality. He angrily demands information, which he then judges her for, about giving her previous boyfriend a handjob. Later, he gets upset when she expresses interest in having sex with him because she's being too eager about it. It's very hypocritical on his part considering he's thinking about cheating on her with Lili, and all the authority figures in his life are telling him he should sleep around.
182** He also says some nasty things to his mother when he learns of her infidelity, exclaiming that she brought men to the house "Under our nose like a brothel—men coming in and out."
183* ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'':
184** Capulet berates Juliet and punishes her for extramarital sex.
185** Monty Que disparagingly refers to his ex-wife as a whore, though in his case it's more sympathetic as she really did cheat on him, having another man's baby.
186* ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'': When Janet sneaks into Lenton Sanatorium with her clothes barely hanging on after a night out, Nurse Beamish makes fun of her for not having time to eat and implies she's a cat by meowing at her.
187* ''Film/AVeryPrivateAffair'': Jill, an actress and sex symbol, has a hostile encounter with a cleaning lady in an elevator; the lady says she reads all the stories about her sleeping around on the newspapers and demands to know why she won't leave "the poor boys" alone, rants about how her brother is fighting in Algeria while Jill gets paid millions just for taking off her clothes, and finally says that Jill will someday pay for it all with her life and nobody will feel sorry for a slut and a bitch. She even comes close to physically assaulting Jill, who runs out of the elevator in tears.
188* In ''Film/{{Vlog}}'', Carolina confronts Brooke in a cafe and calls her out about her numerous sexual encounters, and loudly calls her a slut several times.
189* All the characters in ''Film/WrittenOnTheWind'' look down on Marylee for her promiscuity.
190* ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'': One of the women whom Claire interviews who knew The White Orchid expresses strong dislike of her promiscuity, saying it was inappropriate in a decent town like theirs.
191* ''Film/TheWitch'': Katherine calls Thomasin a slut and accuses her of trying to seduce her own father and brother. In reality, Thomasin has done no such thing, and if anything, her brother appears to be lusting after ''her'' (and genuinely [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny feels guilty about it]]).
192* ''Film/WishYouWereHere1987'': Lynda is working at her cafe waitress job one day when out of the blue her estranged father Hubert shows up as a customer. Hubert has learned that his daughter, who he has a combative relationship with, is pregnant out of wedlock by his middle-aged friend. When Lynda gets to Hubert's table, she pretends not to recognize him. Hubert angrily calls her a slut to her face.
193* ''Film/WomenIsLosers'': Celina is shown walking past her family and friends, who are mostly disapproving of her being pregnant when unmarried. In one ImagineSpot she also sees her mother say that she's a whore for wanting to use the pill.
194* ''Film/YoungAndWild'': Daniela is quietly told off for having sex with a boy before being married by her teacher, then is kicked out of the Evangelical school. She later says they treat it as worse than murder or other crimes, and their real First Commandment is "thou shalt not fornicate", complaining of this.
195* ''Film/YoungHearts'': Harper is cited over a dress code violation as her shorts are deemed too revealing. She feels this is blaming her for how her body's shaped with an implied judgment about her supposed promiscuity based on that. Tilly's dad wholeheartedly agrees and denounces this as double standards too as boys aren't treated that way for similar clothes. When other kids at school learn Harper is now having sex with Tilly, Liam says she's a slut as a result. The rumor mill soon makes it grow into Harper being with three guys, but it's only been Tilly (they were also both their first). Harper confronts Liam and then chews him out about this. It doesn't stop him though, as Liam soon spreads another rumor about Harper having grabbed a boy's dick. Tilly starts to buy into this too, outraging Harper. She decries how her having sex with him makes her a slut, while Tilly gets inducted into the “cool boys club” for it. They break up as a result.
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199* There is a joke about a woman who complains to the doctor:
200--> '''Woman''': After every date, I end up in bed. I can simply refuse no man, and afterwards, I feel like a slut and an idiot. \
201'''Doctor''': Very well, I'll give you some pills, and you'll have no problem refusing... \
202'''Woman''': No, doctor, not something to be able to refuse. Give me pills so I won't feel like a slut and an idiot.
203* More nastily, the book of insults and putdowns ''Ouch'' by Dave Dutton has insults for men commenting variously upon ugliness, stupidity, arrogance, cruelty and so forth. ''[[DoubleStandard All ]]''[[DoubleStandard the lines aimed at women]] consist of either "she's a slut" or "she's frigid". Damned if you do, damned if you don't, ladies.
204* A crowd is about to stone an unfaithful woman to death when Jesus steps between them and says "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!" The crowd is silent... and then the woman yelps as someone starts throwing rocks at her. Jesus sighs and says "Mom, I'm trying to work here!".
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208* Music/LilWayne frequently engages in this, despite boasting of having sex with numerous promiscuous women at the same time.
209-->"These hoes got pussies like craters. Can't treat these hoes like ladies, man."
210* Music/{{Madonna}} and Music/ChristinaAguilera have both brought attention to Slut-Shaming and its ickiness, the former in "Human Nature" and the latter in "Can't Hold Us Down" and "Still Dirty."
211* Music/TaylorSwift has been accused of this several times in the past (along with MadonnaWhoreComplex) but has largely grown out of it:
212** "Better Than Revenge" is one long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about a girl who stole the narrator's boyfriend and has the line "she's better known for the things that she does on mattress" to further the point.
213** "Fifteen" has her imply her best friend is DefiledForever due to having sex with her boyfriend, who soon dumps her. She ''could'' have been trying to make a statement about how sometimes people, especially younger ones, jump into sex before being truly ready and properly prepared to deal with the potential consequences, but it doesn't come across that way and instead came across as this trope. Justified, however, as she was quoting what her best friend actually said about it at the time.
214** "You Belong With Me" has the lines "she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts" and "She wears high heels, I wear sneakers" which imply that [[RealWomenDontWearDresses this makes the girl unsuitable for her love interest.]].
215* This is all the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qg3rQfeZv4 "Fit But You Know It"]] by The Streets is about. He sees a random girl and feels justified in judging every aspect of her appearance before condemning her for being aware that she's attractive. Deconstructed in the context of the ConceptAlbum ''A Grand Don't Come For Free'' - at this point in the story, Mike has just been dumped and is [[DrowningMySorrows now in the middle of a drinking binge]], so it seems like he's just taking out his frustrations about his failed relationship on the first attractive woman he sees. Also since he's actually saying these things out loud while in line at a fast food restaurant, the song ends with him getting kicked out of the establishment.
216* Music/{{Paramore}}'s "Misery Business" reeks of this.
217--> Once a whore you're nothing more / I'm sorry, that'll never change.
218** Also potentially a deconstruction of this trope in general. The Slut-Shaming could be a product of the narrator's [[{{Yandere}} bitterness and jealousy because the boy she likes has chosen another girl over her.]]
219* Played with (in a way) in "Slip it In" off the Music/BlackFlag album of the same name. The song takes multiple shots at a woman who is regretful for [[ReallyGetsAround "what [she] did the night before"]], hitting on (and sleeping with, if the spoken word intro is anything to go by) other guys when she claims to have a boyfriend, and blaming her actions on having too much to drink, among other things — however the song later states "You're getting around/I'm not putting it down/It's just what it is/Getting it while it's around", so the song plays the trope straight and subverts it at the same time.
220* Salt-n-Pepa lashes out against this in the song "None Of Your Business" — which also doubled as a TakeThat towards their critics.
221* The girl posse attempts to do this to Maggie, a former prostitute who became one of Hero's disciples, in the ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'' song "Leave Here."
222* In Music/AmandaPalmer's [[LyricalDissonance cheerful]] song "Oasis", the protagonist was raped by a man at a party. She ends up pregnant and goes to get an abortion. She brings her best friend, who herself had been molested in the past, and it goes normally enough. When they go back to college apparently Melissa spread rumors that the protagonist was a "crack whore" and they stop talking... Except for the fact they're going to a Blur concert together soon.
223* Despite his own hyper-sexual reputation, [[Music/{{Prince}} Prince's]] "Little Red Corvette" is all about this trope.
224-->''I guess I should have closed my eyes\
225When you drove me\
226To the place where your horses run free\
227'Cause I felt a little ill\
228When I saw all the pictures\
229Of the jockeys that were there before me''
230* "Dicked Down in Dallas" by Trey Lewis has him listing off all the sex acts that his ex is likely performing now that she's not with him anymore.
231* "Waste of a Whiskey Drink" by Music/GaryAllan has been accused of this, as the song is about one man convincing another man not to buy a woman a drink, because said woman will just sleep around and dump him.
232* Constantly in Music/{{Eminem}}'s music, Slim Shady will scream at a woman for being a slut or a whore [[HypocriticalHumor while cheating on her himself and being an abuser into the bargain]]. Over time in his work, he tends to tone it down by specifically going after shallow women, abusive women, and golddiggers. It's also worth observing that at other times Slim celebrates "sluts" and "trashy" women and has liberal attitudes towards women's sexual freedom (he's in favour of abortion and, later, condemnatory of Donald Trump's misogyny).
233* Bea Miller's "[[FunWithAcronyms Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing]]" is all about railing against this attitude, albeit more by empowering the singer than directly condemning the haters.
234-->I love myself, I wanna see it\
235When I turn around, look in the mirror\
236And if you don't like it, you can leave it\
237'Cause it's my own and I'll keep owning it\
238If you don't like what I'm wearing\
239Well, you're only bothered 'cause you're staring\
240And you'll never talk me into caring\
241'Cause it's my own and I'll keep owning it\
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246* Subverted somewhat in Literature/TheBible. While it doesn't think highly of sex outside of marriage ("No adultery" is one of the Ten Commandments, for starters), it treats adulterers as people instead of dirty whores, with A) Jesus big on redemption and atonement, not punishment, and B) shamers being reminded that their sins [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't any better than those of the shamed.]]
247** The Pharisees bring an adulteress before Jesus and ask what he thinks should be done with her. According to Jewish law, she should [[DisproportionateRetribution be stoned to death]]. Jesus said to the crowd "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." When everyone in the crowd [[NotSoDifferentRemark realized they were sinners]], they all left. Jesus then told the woman GoAndSinNoMore.
248*** Some have claimed that Jesus was actually calling them out on the DoubleStandard- under the Mosaic Law, both adulterer and adulteress should ''both'' be put to death- but where was the man?
249** A similar story appears in [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis]] -- Judah condemns his widowed daughter-in-law, Tamar, to death for getting pregnant out of wedlock. It turns out the conception was when Tamar [[BedTrick dressed like a prostitute and slept with Judah]], who was trying to weasel his way out of a levirate marriage (marrying his brother's widow). When Tamar reveals this, Judah admits that she is more righteous than him; they don't become a couple, but the twins she gives birth to become Judah's heirs.
250** Another incident happens with another woman named Tamar when she is raped by her half-brother Amnon. After the ordeal is done, she demands that she [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother marry him]] in order to keep what is left of her honor since the [[ValuesDissonance time's culture dictated that a rapist should marry his victim to compensate for her lost virginity]]. However, Amnon disdains her saying that it was her fault for causing him to lust after her and casts her away in disgust. As a result, Tamar says ''his rejection of her is considered even worse than the rape itself''.
251** As with the above Jesus example, there was another incident with a woman at a well who gave Jesus water. Jesus asked her to draw a cup for him and she tried to refuse the request for being both a Samaritan and an adulteress (an adulteress at the time could mean a number of things). Jesus knew this and didn't mind either one. The detail in the story that it was about noontime has made some commentators think the woman was already being slut-shamed by her community. Why was she was getting water at the well alone at that hot hour instead of say earlier in the morning with many other people? Because she was avoiding them.
252* After the dice game in the ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', Karna calls Draupadi a slut for having five husbands (even though, as stated earlier in the narrative, she is not the first woman to do so...[[DoubleStandard and men were permitted to take multiple wives, mistresses, and concubines]]), and uses her "sluttiness" as justification for why she should submit to his and Duryodhana's sexual advances in front of his court. Later, she tells Krishna what went down, and he says he'll make it right, that no woman (especially one as pious as Draupadi) should be treated that way.
253* Myth/NorseMythology:
254** In "Literature/SorlisTale", Freyja, who in this tale is Odin's concubine, sleeps with four dwarfs in exchange for a necklace. Odin makes Loki steal the necklace and when Freyja goes to Odin to get it back, he calls her out for her bargain. Meanwhile, our knowledge of Norse myth suggests Odin is simultaneously married to Frigg and had plenty of extramarital affairs even besides Freyja.
255** Subverted in the older Lokasenna, where Loki attempts to slut-shame Freyja, only for her father Njord to defend her by saying that there is nothing wrong with a married woman having a lover. Said adultery is about Freyja sleeping with [[BrotherSisterIncest Freyr]].
256* The Mesoamerican legend of the Xtabay had two equally beautiful women, Xkeban and Utz-Colel, who lived in the same village. Xkeban was promiscious and the village shamed her for this while praising Utz-Colel for her chastity. At one point, the village considered exiling her, but decided against it to humiliate her further.
257* ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'': One myth has the nymph Aura tease Artemis by saying that Artemis's buxom figure meant she couldn't ''really'' be a virgin, while her own petite body was more befitting of a maiden. Artemis goes to Nemesis over the insult, and Nemesis decides the appropriate punishment is for Aura to lose her virginity, via getting her raped by Dionysus.
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261* During the feud between Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and the [[Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith British Bulldog]], the latter's wife was hitting on Shawn Michaels to make him look bad, which led to Wrestling/JimCornette accusing Shawn Michaels of being a fornicator who was trying to make Diana break her marital vows. So, this wasn't an example on screen but off screen, Stu Hart did not like how it made Diana look, making it this trope retroactively.[[note]]Wrestling/JimCornette claims that Stu actually called ''him'' to complain about it (possibly because he was managing both Bulldog and Wrestling/OwenHart at the time, so it was easy to get him on the phone), and Cornette thinking it was a prank because Owen (a notorious prankster) handed him the phone proceeded to give a very wiseass response blaming the whole thing on fellow creative team member Bruce Pritchard, believing that's who he was actually talking to, and told Stu that Prichard was into every vile sex act you could think of. That is, until Prichard walked in the room while Cornette was still on the phone. "Hey Bruce, now Stu Hart thinks you're a pervert!"[[/note]]
262* While commentators like [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "the King" Lawler]] and Wrestling/{{Tazz}} get to drool over the Divas/Knockouts and beg them to get their "puppies" or "pigeons" out (being euphemisms for breasts), it's a guarantee that if the ladies in question actually ''did so'', they would be considered sluts.
263* Furthermore, pro wrestling is a form of media in which women whose only crime is being a {{heel}} (as in less likable than the {{face}}, for any reason) can loudly and incessantly be chanted at with calls of "SLUT" or "SHE'S A CRACK WHORE". Mostly, the heels will do ''something'' to "earn" slut chants but not always. Wrestling/TommyDreamer merely said [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] ''looked'' like one in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, for example.
264* On the August 8 edition of ''Sunday Night Heat'', Wrestling/{{Ivory}} attacked [[Wrestling/TerriPoch Tori]] from behind and wrote "Slut" on her back as punishment for Tori having previously posed in body paint instead of clothing. Trish Stratus would later imitate this on ''Monday Night Raw'', spray painting "Slut" on Wrestling/ChristyHemme's back after Christy posed for Playboy magazine.
265* Trish Stratus was used as a play thing that Wrestling/VinceMcMahon eventually discarded, causing her to rebel against him. Wrestling/MollyHolly and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] would hold this against her long after the fact, insisting Trish had slept her way to the top.
266* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon was frequently referred to as a slut but only after she turned on her father and sided with Wrestling/TripleH (with whom Wrestling/{{Vince|McMahon}} had been feuding) and took control of his company. She never did anything remotely whorish though so it's more of a case of fans not knowing what other insult to chant at her ("Gold Digger" and "Manipulator" not exactly being easy for wrestling crowds to chant).[[note]]Also, there's the fact that "slut" and "gold digger" would be more applicable to Triple H, as Stephanie is the daughter of Wrestling/{{WWE}} Chairman Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and stands to inherit the company. Triple H's original [[TheGimmick gimmick]] was an elitist, BlueBlood snob who was presumably very wealthy as well. After he formed Wrestling/DGenerationX with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/{{Chyna}} and [[Wrestling/RickRude "Ravishing" Rick Rude]], he abandoned the [[RichBitch rich bastard]] gimmick, though it was never explained whether he still had the money.[[/note]]
267* Steve, [[AlMightyJanitor The sound guy of Women's Extreme Wrestling and Dangerous Women Of Wrestling]], hated hos. Normally this translated into HeManWomanHater but sometimes he would ally with women he thought weren't hos or were less hos than a particular target of his wrath (such as the self-identified G.I. Ho). It was implied [[FreudianExcuse he hadn't gotten over a breakup and might have been cheated on.]]
268* While working at the IWA Mid-South ticket booth, Mickie Knuckles was constantly harassed by then IWA World Champion Wrestling/JimmyJacobs, who at one point held up challenger [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] after putting him in a sleeper hold and screamed "You want this Mickie? You want this you slut!"
269* Wrestling/TrishStratus got showered with chants of "slut" after she turned on Wrestling/ChrisJericho, an admitted arrogant ass but one who genuinely liked and defended her, for Wrestling/{{Christian}}, who physically assaulted her for ''eventually'' returning Jericho's affections and then bragging to Jericho about how she slept with Christian behind his back while planning Jericho's downfall. Trish would go on to hypocritically tease Lita for sleeping with and getting impregnated by Wrestling/{{Kane}} [[ScarpiaUltimatum in an effort to defend Matt Hardy from him.]]
270* Unfortunately for Wrestling/{{Lita}} her run as a "slut" came across as legit Slut-Shaming in real life. Behind the scenes, she had cheated on boyfriend Wrestling/MattHardy with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and fans became aware of this and began to chant insults at her on TV so the writers used it as a storyline to turn her heel. The unfortunate part (in story) came where she turned on her husband — who was only her husband because he had [[ScarpiaUltimatum scared her into sleeping with him]].
271* When Karen Angle tried to use Wrestling/{{Sting}}'s supposed affection for children to goad him into becoming Wrestling/KurtAngle's TagTeam partner, Sting retorted that she should change her dress if she cares about children.
272* On a 2010 edition of the Funkin Conservatory's ''!BANG! TV'', Radiant Rain arrived from an Wrestling/{{AAA}} show calling Claudia "The Claw" Reiff "an ugly kiss ass hooker" for Wrestling/DoryFunkJr.
273* After being named "new vice president of the knockouts" by Karen Jarrett, Wrestling/MadisonRayne accused [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]] and [[Wrestling/BrookeAdams Brooke Tessmacher]] of "being full of diseases" and then fired them.
274* Wrestling/AJLee managed to completely avoid this, and it was epic. After being dumped by [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], she snapped and turned her attention to Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/{{Kane}}, as well as continuing to flirt with Daniel Bryan. It was quite clear she was manipulating them for her own desires and she ended up getting the job as Raw General Manager. She also had a brief dalliance with Wrestling/JohnCena and is now (April 2013) with Wrestling/DolphZiggler, and has been for several months. Interestingly, though some fans and the commentators like to slut-shame AJ and call her names, her current and past love interest(s) are reluctant to do so -- even Daniel Bryan, the ex with the biggest beef with AJ, is catty about her ''choice'' of romantic partner, not her having pursued those romantic partners. Her current boyfriend, Dolph Ziggler, is completely unperturbed about her romantic history and is very proud to be with AJ. Only CM Punk threw their relationship back in her face. Of course, on commentary Lawler just can't stop harping on the fact that she (gasp) has ''had several boyfriends''.
275* Wrestling/EveTorres kind of earned her Hoe-ski chants by trying to cheat on Wrestling/ZackRyder. The only problem here might be that the chants persisted long after that storyline had faded from relevance.
276* While not a crack whore, [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], perhaps because it has been chanted before, introduced Claire Lynch, a drunken crackhead falsely claiming that Wrestling/AJStyles was the father of her child, which is about as close as one can get without actually being.
277* Strange case in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, where Steve Corino brags that Wrestling/MattHardy has slept with way more women than "your" hero, Wrestling/CMPunk. Thing is, [[CrowdChant "CM Pussy" and "CM Hump"]] were ''not'' chanted at Punk in congratulation, so this comment did absolutely nothing to endear anyone to Hardy.
278* During the 2015 IWA Deep South "Softcore Cup", one of the commentators advised a man in the audience who accepted Wrestling/JoeyRyan's blow pop to go get tested.
279* SHINE Champion [=LuFisto=], who was in search of [[TheBully rookies to torment]] at the [[TournamentArc Nova Tournament]], [[Wrestling/AllysinKay addressed]]([[CostumeCopyCat what]] she [[CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown thought]] was) Maria Maria as 'mi puta favorita'.
280* In the lead up to Shine's second Nova Tournament Notorious Nadi said she was a fan of [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]]'s work, and told Negra to quit wrestling because her talents were better suited for prostitution.
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284* ''Theatre/FaustFirstPartOfTheTragedy'' gives details of the Slut-Shaming customs of rural Germany at that period. The bride's bridal garland being ripped from her head and stamped underfoot by the village boys, the "slut" having to sit in a particular pew in church and so on. [[DoubleStandard Nothing was done to the man, of course]].
285* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in the stage production of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': The song "At the End of the Day" ends with the factory workers and foreman condemning Fantine for being a "whore" by having Cosette out of wedlock. Fantine retaliated earlier by saying that she's not the only worker without a sexually clean history and given that she's been refusing the foreman's advances, more than a little of the accusations are them just trying to get rid of her out of spite.
286-->'''Workers:''' While we're earning our daily bread/ She's the one with her hands in the butter!/ You must send the slut away/ Or we're all gonna end in the gutter!/ It's us who'll have to pay/ At the end of the day.\
287'''Foreman:''' I might have known the bitch could bite/ I might have known the cat had claws/ I might have guessed your little secret./ Ah yes, the virtuous Fantine/ Who keeps herself so pure and clean/ You'd be the cause, I have no doubt/ Of any trouble hereabout/ You play a virgin in the light/ But need no urgin' in the night!
288* ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' has a song about this, "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". After Rizzo has a pregnancy scare, everyone starts gossiping about her.
289-->''"There are worse things I could do/Than go with a boy or two/Even though the neighborhood/Thinks I'm trashy and no good"''.
290* Played with in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''. Audrey is heavily implied to have been a stripper to make ends meet, and is ashamed of this, seeming to think she deserves the abuse she suffers at the hands of her boyfriend Orin because of it. (Unfortunately, this line of thinking isn't uncommon, especially with people who already have low self-esteem as Audrey does.) Orin seems to agree, even outright referring to her as a slut at one point. Notably, Seymour, who's deeply in love with Audrey and thinks she's a wonderful person, doesn't care one bit about her former job, pointing out that she was simply making a living.
291* Shakespeare loves this trope. It's always deconstructed:
292** In ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}'', the protagonist, Imogen is slut-shamed by her husband, Posthumous. One of [[HeManWomanHater the antagonists]] managed to convince him that she slept with him by stealing her bracelet. After her husband wants her dead, she runs away disguised as a boy. However when Posthumous believes that Imogen is dead her regrets and tries to commit suicide.
293** In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' one of the four protagonists, Hero, is slut-shamed on her wedding day by her husband-to-be being called. In Shakespeare's day, this would have been a fate worse than death as her honour would have been destroyed forever. Hero has few people who believe she's innocent, even her own father. [[Spoiler: However, Hero is extremely lucky as her cousin, Beatrice, and the man she has BelligerentSexualTension with, Bennick believe she's innocent. As well as that the Watchman manage to find evidence of her innocence]]
294** In ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''. Not only does Iago's slut-shaming of an innocent woman ultimately get her killed (even though she never even cheated on her husband), but Emilia has a rather impressive monologue in which she points out that some men [[{{Jerkass}} deliberately]] cheat on their wives, while many women who cheat on their husbands [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery only do so because]] [[DomesticAbuse their husbands were being mean to them]].
295* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'': [[InteractiveNarrator Che]] frequently mocks Eva's active sex life and habit of sleeping her way up the social ladder. While his comments are fairly subtle the song "Perón's Latest Flame", sung by the Argentine upper classes and military establishment, is ''much'' harsher and outright calls Eva a slut who doesn't belong in high society.
296* In ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'', when Madame Rosepettle catches Rosalie with Jonathan, she upbraids her viciously and at length for being too sexually free with other boys.
297* ''Theatre/WhichWitchTheMusical'': Maria is called a whore, and is accused of being evil because of her sexuality.
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301* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' provides us with an example of shaming by legislation. The extra, in-game index describes how courtesans (by that time a word meaning essentially "whores") were by law more and more circumscribed and sharply defined in dress and hairstyle in an effort to eliminate their profession from polite society.
302* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'': A senator complains that his organization has been demoted to useless functions, like legislating the length of women's sleeves (a real thing). The heralds also make announcements about that same recent legislation. Wearing their sleeves too short was a punishable offense for women.
303* The criminal inmates of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' are slightly misogynistic to the same degree they're also trying to slightly hurt Batman's feelings. There are a lot of taunts thrown at Harley and Catwoman.
304* Religious girl and ShrinkingViolet Kate Marsh from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' receives this hard from not only the stuck up Hipster JerkAss's from her school but also her deeply religious mother and aunt. It all starts when a video of her making out with several boys at a Vortex Club party surfaces on the internet (the fact that anyone can clearly see she's under the influence of something while she's doing it doesn't mitigate anything). What makes it worse is that the students doing the "shaming" know for a fact she WAS drugged at the party and normally acts like the purest girl there is yet still think Kate brought everything on herself. The game also shows the negative consequences of the slutshaming: [[spoiler: Kate is really depressed because of it and even manages to kill herself at the end of Episode 2 if the player doesn't make the right choices.]]
305* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
306** During Miranda Lawson's loyalty mission, she confronts the asari leader of the Eclipse mercenaries who's trying to abduct Miranda's sister Oriana. Enyala proceeds to insult Miranda's rather revealing outfit, and if Jack(who hates Miranda) is the other squadmate, she will agree with the insults.
307---> '''Captain Enyala:''' I was just waiting for you to finish getting dressed. Or does Cerberus really let you whore around in that outfit?
308** Engineers Kenneth Donnelly and Gabriella Donnelly
309--->'''Gabriella''': I've got green across the board. The forward tanks are buoyant and elevated.
310--->'''Kenneth''': Are you talking about the Normandy or Miranda?
311--->'''Gabriella''': I'm talking about the one that's covered and protected, not bouncing in the breeze.
312** The asari race as a whole is subjected to this. They are an all female pansexual race that prefers to mate with members of other species and are open about their sexuality. Many asari "maidens" (young adults) even take jobs as strippers or dancers in bars for a few centuries, before settling down to raise children. This has created a galaxy-wide stereotype of the asari being promiscuous nymphomaniacs. The asari as a whole downplay this — except when it strategically suits them. The only asari who are promiscuous nymphos are the vampiric Ardat Yakshi serial killers, who are a source of great shame for all asari.
313* Some ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' fans don't like [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Tharja]] for many [[AbusiveParents valid]] [[StalkerWithACrush reasons]], but one of the more minor reasons tend to be her [[{{Stripperiffic}} outfit]]. Tharja herself, however, is mortified when she realizes how revealing her outfit is, which makes the choice of clothing sound less about any conscious choice on her part and more about catering to the MaleGaze. It's not even an outfit that is unique to her, since it's just the standard Dark Mage outfit sans headdress, and the male version of the outfit is just as revealing.
314* ''Videogame/HauntingGround'': When Daniella finally corners Fiona, she calls her a "vile creature" who "invites the man into her filthy body, again and again". Though it's a completely baseless accusation since Fiona is [[PurityPersonified a virgin.]] Daniella simply resents the fact that Fiona ''could'', while she herself cannot [[spoiler: because she's an incomplete [[ArtificialHuman Homonculus]], who can neither feel pleasure or pain]].
315* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, this frequently happens to the followers of Dibella, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Goddess of Beauty who is also associated with the [[LoveGoddess carnal and sexual aspects of love]]. The primary means of worshiping her involves the "Dibellan Arts", a particular form of lovemaking and sexual practices. Given that most of her followers [[LadyLand are women]], many are forced to practice these Arts in private for fear of this trope. One particular case of this occurs in ''[[Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', where Svana — the niece of Haelga, a promiscuous Dibella-worshiping innkeeper — asks you to publicly humiliate her aunt for her behavior.
316* In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon: [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature More Friends of Mineral Town]]'' the Kappa is the one bachelor who will never live with the player character if married, but as with every other marriage candidate, the PC becomes pregnant very shortly after the wedding. Every other husband will notice the PC seems unwell and take her to the doctor; the Kappa, however, just appears in the PC's house one day and says "You, pregnant," and then disappears again, prompting a "..." reaction from her. Then she goes to the doctor and finds out it's true. All the doctor says to her is "You're going to have a baby" when she shows up at the clinic pregnant and with no husband — no "Congratulations!" like with every other spouse, — and Elli is completely silent.
317* Deconstructed in ''VideoGame/Persona5''. Ann Takamaki faces a lot of this trope at Shujin Academy. Several students pass around rumors that Ann has been giving sexual favors to PE teacher Suguru Kamoshida. She isn't, but Kamoshida has been persistently trying to get her to do so by threatening her with [[{{Blackmail}} her friend Shiho's removal from the volleyball team]]. When Ann finally has enough and refuses Kamoshida's advances, he carries out his threats and then some. Even after Kamoshida is dealt with, the rumors about Ann being a slut don't go away, although a few of her classmates apologize for their past treatment of her and act a little nicer to her.[[note]]Part of this can be chalked up to ValuesDissonance between Japan and the West. In Japan, Westerners are stereotyped as very sexually promiscuous, and Ann is quarter-white. Ann's heritage is thus being used as "justification" for the shaming by the students, even though it's not true. While [[ValuesResonance both sides of the Pacific would agree that Ann's treatment is monstrously unfair]], Westerners are less likely to see why Ann of all people is being singled out.[[/note]][[invoked]]
318** Poor Ann gets it ''again'' in ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', from the first Jail Monarch Alice Hiiragi. In this case, it's pure PsychologicalProjection, as Alice herself was subject to similar abuse when ''she'' was a Shujin student, and it left lasting scars into adulthood. Ann superficially resembles the girls who used to torment Alice and Alice ''really'' isn't in a stable state of mind, so she lashes out at Ann in a vain attempt to give her old bullies a taste of their own medicine. Once the Phantom Thieves steal her heart and remove [=EMMA=]'s influence, she apologizes.
319* PlayedForLaughs in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' thanks to [[{{Troll}} Kokichi]] and [[LovableSexManiac Miu]]. The former tosses insults at the latter such as "puny whore-brained bitchlet" and "filthy cum dumpster". However, the latter's [[TooKinkyToTorture BDSM kink]] only results in her [[InsultBackfire getting off on being degraded]].
320** Miu herself does this on occasion; she has a voice clip in which she says "trashy skank", and one of her nicknames for Kaede is "Guy-a-Day", as if to suggest that Kaede is the kind of girl who would make out with a different guy every day. [[HypocriticalHumor Keep in mind that this is coming from a girl who not only tries too hard to look like a slut, but also gets off on being slut-shamed]].
321* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': Having been in a relationship with just one soldier from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany during the country's occupation of Norway is enough to be branded a "German slut". Such women were publicly humiliated and ostracized after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended, to the point of no longer being able to make a living on their own if discovered. This is half the reason the child cared for during the game is an AbandonedWarChild. A journal entry written by the PlayerCharacter points out that the women who had been with German soldiers were punished more harshly than people who had cooperated with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany purely for financial profit.
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325* ''Webcomic/LiesSistersAndWives'': Agatha and Elisabeth disapprove of Agatha's sister being a call girl (though [[OneDialogueTwoConversations they have different ideas about who "Agatha's sister" is]]). Jim goes along with it just to try and get them to move on from the topic before they can discover they have different information.
326* Inverted in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', after Faye sleeps with [[spoiler:her boss's brother, Sven]]. She immediately begins to freak out but is reassured by her therapist that she's not a slut and that a casual sexual relationship can be healthy, and is perhaps exactly what she needs at that point.
327* ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'': Invoked by name when [[AlphaBitch Faith]], [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/enjoying_the_perks calls Tiffany out on it.]] Also counts as a mild WhatTheHellHero moment, since Tiffany is the school's resident superhero. However, Faith ''did'' say she'd stop seeing other girls [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/take_things_slow if Tiffany asked her to]]; assuming, of course, that Tiffany was consenting to go steady with her.
328* InUniverse example: Kankri from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' at one point criticises [[EthicalSlut Porrim]] for sleeping around. She is ''not'' pleased. As Kankri is intended to be an example of [[DeliberatelyBadExample the worst forms of social justice]] while [[{{Foil}} Porrim is the opposite]], the readers are expected to side with her and balk at Kankri's hypocrisy.
329* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' parodies this a few different ways.
330** Once is with a city full of virgins terrified of sluts, [[VirginityMakesYouStupid who don't know what sluts or sex are]].
331** Another is with a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic smith]] who gives a ''man'' stereotypical lady armor for not being "manly" enough, with the word "SLUT" emblazoned across the chest.[[note]]Apart from that, it's really good armor[[/note]]
332** A third is the garden of Eden, with God actually being okay with the apple thing, but telling them they have to cover up the tits. No... just the lady tits.
333* In ''Webcomic/SinFest'', Seymore gives a scathing comment to Monique for dressing provocatively. Later, Xanthe does too, indicating her dress is the work of the Patriarchy. Since the Sisterhood arc, pretty much any expression of male sexuality is literally demonized to the point where the porn industry is an extension of the devil himself.
334* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' Bian, a {{Ladette}} who ReallyGetsAround, rebels against this '''[[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/think-possibilities/ hard]]'''.
335* Defied in ''the thin H line,'' Clay's sequel to ''Webcomic/SexyLosers''. A scantily-clad woman responds to a HeManWomanHater calling her a slut by pretending the word is an acronym for "'''S'''uper-'''L'''oveable '''U'''nderstanding '''T'''ype" and thanking him for the compliment. She continues in this vein when he calls her a bitch:
336--> '''Woman:''' "'''B'''eautiful, '''I'''ntelligent, '''T'''ruly '''C'''ompassionate '''H'''uman." That's so sweet, coming from an [=ASS=].\
337'''Man:''' What does an [=ASS=] stand for?\
338'''Woman:''' Nothing, apparently.
339* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-005 there is an extra]] who exists mostly to criticize Diane behind her back (and also within earshot) based on her slutty reputation. This extra then [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-023 discovers]] her friend is [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin not a virgin]] and has to [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-024 apologize]] for making her feel bad.
340* PlayedForDrama in ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool''. Slut-shaming is part of the titular school's modus operandi via its abusive "attack therapy." ''Any'' contact between girls and boys, no matter how benign, is forbidden; if a girl gets caught, or if she reveals that she's been sexually active in the past, the program makes an example out of her through prolonged humiliation.
341* ''Webcomic/BooItsSex'': Tara was slut-shamed while she was alive. She was known to have had many partners, and then the nude photos she had sent to one of her lovers were copied and posted around campus with the words "slut" written across them.
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345* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
346** They use "slut" and "whore" freely to describe anyone they don't like, but they've both admitted to enjoying being slutty themselves. More to the point, they both have a dim view of shaming women for having sex or enjoying it.
347** In-universe, Critic gets some from Douchey. First, he's just called a whore, but then he's called a "war whore", an insult for a woman who cheats while her husband is away fighting.
348%% ** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick criticizes ''Film/MoulinRouge'' for this.
349* The ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' review of ''Series/TheGirlfriendExperience'' was removed because Kyle was accused of this, given that he frequently mocks the background of Sasha Grey and her too-sexual-for-its-own-good character.
350* ''WebVideo/TheGuild'':
351** In the second season, Codex is interested in a hot stuntman neighbor and dresses up (showing cleavage) to get his interest when Vork shows up out of the blue and asks "Why are you dressed like a harlot?" Then he invades her home and peruses her belongings before randomly turning to her and saying "Cover yourself, woman."
352** At the end of the third season, [[spoiler:Codex and Fawkes have sex]] and she discusses it with the guild at the opening of the fourth. In addition to yelling at her for sleeping with the enemy, they call her a slut and attack her for doing so after one date. Then, when he makes it clear it was a one-time thing, she starts calling herself a slut.
353* ''WebVideo/RebelTaxi'': Pan Pizza has been known to put down Slut-Shaming on occasion because [[PerverseSexualLust he's perfectly okay with women being sluts]].
354* Creator/AllisonPregler during her ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' reviews would frequently call Phoebe a selfish whore during her commentary. She realized that her name-calling was a bit harsh without context, and clarifies that she doesn't have any problem with people being sexually active or promiscuous, as long as they don't treat their partners like garbage. Phoebe's boyfriends are used, lied to, cheated on, and otherwise treated like crap by her, and that's not counting her usual abhorrent behavior in general.
355* ''WebVideo/EchoRose'': This seems to be a common occurrence in Nettlebrook— not only were students being shamed on "Fallen Angels", but Echo herself received a note calling her a "hooker", and the former homecoming queen Zoey was bullied with sexual rumors and the name "Hoey".
356* In ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', Lizzie has this view of her younger sister Lydia, saying that "Ugh, Lydia's being a stupid whorey slut again!" is something she'd be likely to say about her often. However, the narrative doesn't treat this trait of Lizzie's as admirable; when Lydia overhears Lizzie call her a slut, she forces Lizzie to apologize for her remark and when she later seriously asks Lizzie if [[spoiler:George Wickham uploading a sex tape of them online without her consent]] wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been "[[IronicEcho a stupid whorey slut]]", Lizzie is quick to reassure her that it's not her fault at all.
357* Claire from ''WebVideo/OneTake'' suffers this after her nude photos are leaked. They are put on her school's website, earning her the consternation of her parents. A year later, she's known as "that Berklee girl" whose videos "everyone has watched", and slurs are hurled her way.
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365* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' got away with it in [[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E29SkyWitch "Sky Witch"]], with Princess Bubblegum reassuring Marceline The Vampire Queen that Raggedy Princess could be her new cuddly toy, and that she'd be happy to do it as "she's got zero self-respect".
366* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Escape from Pearl Bailey", Steve gets revenge on one of the bullies he presumes is making fun of Debbie by giving her herpes. Everyone at school calls her a slut.
367* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'':
368** Ginger in "Fast Reputation" grappled with the "damned if you do and damned if you don't" scenario, when she crashes a high school party to shed her "[[ExtremeDoormat Nice]] [[NiceGuysFinishLast Girl]]" image. She chats up with this high schooler, she crushes on for a bit under the table. And then he talked to Miranda and Courtney about her "pearly whites" and how dark it was, the two spiral it out of control to where Ginger encounters graffiti that all but calls her a slut (the cartoon instead uses the term "fast").
369** To a lesser extent, the priggish and adult Joann tells Hoodsey that Carl (a preteen boy) that the latter is "a budding exhibitionist" all because the boy isn't ShowerShy.
370* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': In "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS5E47SexualHarassment Sexual Harassment]]", the boys and [[AmoralAttorney Adler]] do this repeatedly to Kimberly, a fellow classmate, calling her a "vile temptress" [[InsaneTrollLogic for being attractive and "giving" the boys erections]]. They all get in trouble with the judge as a result.
371* Diane from ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' experienced both this and VirginShaming at the same time when she was called a "virgin slut" in high school. Even back then, she wasn't afraid to point out the LogicBomb.
372* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': In the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' special, Betty's sister Polly (played by Bitch Pudding) finds out from Archie that Reggie and the football team had been doing this to Betty after she got drunk and posted a nude photo of herself on the internet. In revenge, Polly attacks the football team and slams Reggie's penis in a locker door.
373* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' had the puritan "ghost" of Hebediah Grimm, who attacked women with a giant mallet for their "painted faces, exposed necklines, and skirts that rise above the ankle!" It turned out Hebediah was being played by two teens who would "rescue" his victims, who they found hot for exactly the reasons Hebediah was attacking. This is probably why [[HollywoodHomely Velma]] was spared, despite her short skirt, with Grimm calling her a homely "model of purity."
374* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Gender inverted. Andy [=DeMayo=] gets mad at Greg for having Steven when he wasn't married to his mother. The two were in a relationship for several years before they decided to have a child, but it wasn't like they could have likely gotten legally married anyway, with Rose being a StarfishAlien.
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