By Fiona Zublin. I declare that I have had an abortion. It was April , and hundreds of French women signed their names, swearing they had sought illegal abortions. Wade gave American women the right to an abortion in , in the early s, French women were still traveling to the U. But the fact that the manifesto, and particularly the involvement of intellectual celebrities like de Beauvoir, sparked public debate is undeniable, she admits.
Top definition. French whore unknown. A woman who wears so much perfume she smells horrible. The French have long been notorious for their lack of personal hygiene; so instead of regular bathing they would douse themselves with perfume in an attempt to cover up their own funk. This is quite counter-productive since wearing too much perfume will make you smell just as bad if not worse than b. A woman stinking like a French whore approached me at the bar.
Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who are perceived to violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. Examples of slut-shaming include being criticized or punished for violating dress code policies by dressing in perceived sexually provocative ways, requesting access to birth control , [5] [6] [7] having premarital , casual , or promiscuous sex, engaging in prostitution , [8] [9] or when being victim blamed for being raped or otherwise sexually assaulted. Slut-shaming involves criticizing women for their transgression of accepted codes of sexual conduct, [12] i.
Slut is generally a term for a woman or girl who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous. The first recorded use of the word was a reference to a man, in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales , in which he is referring to the man's untidy appearance. Slut-shaming is a related term, referring to the act of drawing attention to a person's promiscuous behavior for the purpose of shaming them socially. From the late 20th century, there have been attempts to reclaim the word, exemplified by various SlutWalk parades, and some individuals embrace the title as a source of pride. The common denotative meanings are a sexually promiscuous woman, [1] or "an immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute.