By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 12 years ago

Watch: Franchesca Ramsey explains how slut shaming becomes victim blaming

*Trigger warning*

Last week, comedian Jenna Marbles made a totally unfunny and viciously slut-shaming video called Things I Don’t Understand About Girls: Sluts Edition. Franchesca Ramsey breaks it down–and offers an emotional plea to stop with the victim blaming.

You can read the full transcript at Racialicious.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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