ADD to your Forms of American Insanity List (F.A.I.L.) the term "slut shaming", which is something that occurs on the internet, and could therefore, with some degree of veracity, be classified as a global, rather than american phenomenon, but not with a straight face.
Our venerable american tadition of encouraging young women to become narcissistic exhititionists aside, swapping pics online is something we all do, but in america, as we do all things, we do it with a special flair.
The method of the caper is flattering the mark, some young unworldly but vain lass, into posting revealing pics, then using them to humiliate, to blackmail, or both. Suicides are still relatively uncommon, but increasing.
You'd almost like to see someone graduate from high school, fall victim, ostensibly, to slut shaming, then respond to her foiled disappointed tormentors "thanks for the free pub. It should help my upcoming screen career."
Here is where christian prude and free market hype cross paths, and mesh. And its generally the same folks giving us both forms of nonsense. But my, don't they go nicely together, and how inventive of the conservative jesus and money segment of american society!
Can't blame this on the liberals. Slut shaming wouldn't work if there wasn't anything, like our bodies, to be ashamed of, and nobody would pay attention if sex, along with everything else, including our personal lives, were not marketed and sold as cash commodities.
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