Slut-Shaming: A Case Study into the Dangers of Sexism in the Media

On the morning of 27th January 2012, I arrived at my bar job to the excited chatter of gossip. You know that indistinguishable breathless glow of voices tinkling with frantic details. Anyone with an extra sliver of information feels like royalty. They have social currency.

The topic on everyone’s lips was a young woman on Twitter. An eighteen-year-old…