Exploring Everyday Slutshaming: The Role of Family and the Male Gaze in Reproducing Women’s Sexual Shame
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article explores everyday forms of slutshaming in the lives of women and girls living primarily in Quebec (Canada) and France. Through a series of semi-directed interviews with 18 participants and a review of public testimonials (n = 12) and academic literature (n = 67) about slutshaming, this analysis shows how sexual shame is first instilled within the family, particularly by mothers seeking to protect daughters against potential future sexual violence. The male gaze is also a key element in the daily reproduction of slutshaming, specifically as it internalizes feelings of body shame and “hypervisibility” in public spaces. This analysis also highlights the fact that although they may appear ordinary or even inoffensive, even the most subtle and internalized forms of slutshaming have many consequences in the lives of women and girls: reduced autonomy, low self-esteem, humiliation, discomfort, and hypervigilance. Ultimately, women’s sexual shame and efforts deployed to reproduce, teach, or instill it at the micro level reinforce a gendered social order in which cisgender, heterosexual men enjoy greater sexual liberty.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".