talking-bird:

I just saw an article call Leslie Knope a slut-shamer, and I’m confused.

She didn’t berate Trish in the Beauty Pageant for being “slutty,” but for being uninformed and unintelligent.

She didn’t berate Jessica Wicks for being “slutty,” but for destroying historical landmarks.

She didn’t care that Shauna had sex, she was just upset that it was with Mark.

She has had sex. She knows Ann has sex. She is fine with Ann having sex.

I’m… seriously really confused, did I miss something?

[Gif description: Leslie Knope making an “ew” face.]

Assuming this is referring to my article.…

Slut-shaming is not quite the right word and so I’ve changed it. But I think she shows a lot of whorephobia in the episode where she takes Tom to the strip club (2X11, Tom’s Divorce) - Ron also participates - where they basically make a ton of judgey comments about the life choices of the strippers they see. IE, Leslie calls Sierra “Seabiscuit”, which is kind of dehumanizing, and then tells her to reconsider her life choices.

I’m postponing that particular article because I’m interested to see where the “empowered slut” storyline Rashida has mentioned goes, but I was very frustrated by that scene in particular.