A teenage girl goes to a concert. Meets a boy. Engages in some public debauchery, including performing oral sex on said boy. Someone in the crowd takes a picture.
When the image goes viral, the boy is either ignored entirely or celebrated as a “hero.” The girl, however, is slut-shamed by a rabid chorus of total strangers.
As Sarah Ditum wrote for the New Statesman: “Welcome to today’s reminder that it’s different for girls.”
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