Have Feminists reclaimed the word "slut"?

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According to the British Psychological Society feminists have reclaimed the word "slut" and therefore it would be appropriate to address a client as such if that were their preference.

Did I miss when feminists reclaimed the word? I think its still offensive.

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Ah so Its nothing to do with feminism, its about men acting out their fetish during therapy?

Okay, I see no issues. Nothing to see here.

Given the two examples, sounds like ‘lesbians’ with penises using therapy for validation and to indulge their fetish.

Women have not reclaimed ‘slut’, it is an abusive term still used IRL and all over the internet to abuse and shame women. The people calling themselves sluts are AGP men as part of their sissy fetish (who have no right to reclaim the word) and people who use it within the kink scene within a bdsm context (so it’s still being used pejoratively but with consent). The ‘Slutwalks’ were NOT reclaiming the word but presenting a show of defiance against it and drawing attention to how often women are abused/shamed/judged/victim-blamed for what they wear etc.

To be successfully ‘reclaimed’ it would need to have been redefined and simultaneously be considered unusable/offensive by men. Men are still using it freely to denigrate women, oh, and another group of men are now using it as part of their vile interpretation of ‘womanhood’.

It’s horrifying seeing so many key organisations so overtly captured by this ideology.

Of course not. Also, you can't really reclaim a word, if enough other people still use it in the original meaning, there's nothing you can do.

GlorianaCervixia:
The working group that created this document is led by a trans woman

That explains it. I find that TW tend to have very little insight into what women are like and what is important to us. Curious, that.

Dr Christina Richards, the transwoman who led the creation of this document, is also a former member of WPATH and has previously said that detranstition rates are very low and detransitioners will "fully" retransition.

Is this acceptable from the chair of a group producing guidelines for providing therapy to people with gender dyphoria? It appears to be wishful thinking rather than evidence-based.

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The guidelines also endorse the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy which Transgender Trend has questioned: www.transgendertrend.com/ukcp-memorandum-of-understanding-conversion-therapy/