I am aware that Natalie Cammarata's column Avoiding the Walk of Shame was meant to be light-hearted and fun, but I will not embrace a double standard. Can we stop calling it the walk of shame? Why as women are we still suppressing our sexuality? Ourselves? Why is it still immoral to have casual sex? Why do I have to pretend like I don't like sex? I'm not asexual. I'm fun, beautiful and I love myself. Stop passing judgment. Stop assuming that the lady walking home at 11 a.m. is ashamed of herself. Stop assuming that she had casual sex; don't even assume she had sex. Keep your crinkled nose, eye-brow lifted, twisted face to yourself. Why is sleeping with 10, 100, or 1,000 partners shameful? I have a vagina; stop judging me for using it. And why does casual sex equal bad? Why doesn't it equal Hooray! or equal Yeahhhh! Pimped another one!? Change your attitude and stop calling it the walk of shame. Call it what it is: Walk of I-just-used-a-man/woman-to-pleasure-myself-but-you-don't-know-that-for-certain-because-you-are-jumping
-toconclusions-and-really-it's-none-of-your-business-anyway.
Kara Mealer is a senior urban geography and Southeast Asian studies major.
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