generally, everyone else is generalizing

I'm thoroughly fed up with discriminatory comments about the promiscuity of women and girls. And just as a side note, let's think: when's the last time anybody gave fuck about male promiscuity. Never.


That's not the point I'm trying to make, though. What I am trying to say is that it's exhausting being so frustrated by generalized comments like:

Implicit in this argument [about whether girls should get the HPV vaccine] is the assumption that good girls don't get cervical cancer; only "loose" ones do—and they may get what they deserve. [Slate]

And therefore only the girls who, oh I don't know, want to save their cervixes from cancer, would ever want to get the HPV vaccine, and of course that means that all girls selfish enough to want their cervixes are automatically sluts.

It doesn't matter that "the CDC reports that at least 50 percent of Americans are infected with HPV over the course of their lives, and a whopping 80 percent of American women are infected by age 50." It's also not important to note that "approximately 13 percent of American women ... are or will be a victim of rape over the course of their lives."


I mean, if you're raped, then you "deserve" to have cervical cancer. Yeah.


I think I understand why feminists are generalized as being constantly pissed off. They are. People keep on with their stupid comments, and feminists are the only ones commenting (and yeah, mocking, a little) back.