Slut-Shaming is Deeply Rooted in Chinese Culture

This is a recording Jingjing made when she attended an event in Los Angeles in October 2018 called SlutWalk. Slut Walk is a movement calling for an end to rape culture, including victim blaming and slut shaming of sexual assault victims. She interviewed a sex worker who attends SlutWalk every year calling on people to respect women for who they are, not their profession or how they dress. Slut-shaming is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. When China’s #MeToo movement was at its peak last year, there were several high-profile cases (including one involving an influential author, Zhang Wen) that forced everyone to take a long, hard look at the culture of shaming women. Today, with Chinese women, and men, becoming increasingly woke on the issue of gender quality, this is a conversation worth continuing to have.