![]() If Margaret were transported to 2023, she likely would have access to a smartphone (you can envision her grandmother secretly getting her one, her parents none the wiser) and would consider signing up for a period-tracking app. Girls in 1970-they’re just like girls in 2023!īut with one enormous difference: Whether they were sexualizing themselves or others, girls’ reputations could travel far, but not that far. ![]() ![]() They also have a history of singling out the early-developing classmate and fabricating stories about her to smear her as a “slut.” “Anonymous data captured by web pages and apps are easily matched with identifying information, revealing to companies and governments our identity along with our shopping and dating history, HIV status, even our masturbation frequency and methods, if we use a vibrator app.” (Getty Images)Īs the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret reminds us, girls on the cusp of adolescence have long walked around wearing a bikini top as a shirt, posed suggestively and lied about being more sexually developed and experienced than they truly are. Slut-shaming has become more rampant and acceptable than ever before in our surveillance-saturated culture. ![]()
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