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Guy Who Posts Tons of Shirtless Selfies Says Women Who Share Half-Naked Photos Don’t Get ‘Respect’

When it comes to the sharing of R-rated photos, men and women are held to drastically different standards. In fact, the same men who slut-shame women for dressing in revealing outfits often strip down themselves. Lindsey, the woman behind the Twitter account @CardsAgstHrsmt, has made it her mission to call out these “#ShirtlessShamers.” And she’s just spotted one of the biggest hypocrites on the Internet.

“Girls who post half naked photos get 300 notifications and 200 friend requests,” he wrote in what looks like a Facebook post. “Girls who don’t post half naked photos get 5 notifications and respect.” The irony: This dude is the king of shirtless selfies (and takes the cheesiest kind too).

In a Twitter thread below a screen grab of this post, @CardsAgstHrsmt gives a brilliant analysis of why the simple act of a woman posing in underwear angers guys like this so much. “To these guys, women’s nudity is a valued product of sorts, so ‘giving it away’ for attention/internet karma is part of their criticism,” Lindsey wrote. “These guys aren’t okay w/ women getting paid actual money to expose their bodies either, though. They shame dancers/sex workers/models, too. Moreover, when women are half-naked for social or political reasons (bodyposi, slutwalk, etc.) these guys express total, angered confusion. And so it seems the only context of nudity they can accept is nudity ‘bestowed’ privately to a boyfriend/husband.”

She’s right to call this out as a general pattern: The Internet is rife with guys like these.

“The clear message is: What’s good for the gander is not good for the goose, because the goose is a total slut,” Lindsey wrote of these posts she’s collected in The Daily Beast. “Many of the featured guys frame their disapproval in the most punitive way they can imagine for young women in 2016: She will never be ‘wifed’ (as if being legally bound to a misogynist is better than staying single). Many extrapolate further: Because a girl or woman who is half-naked lacks self-respect, she’s not entitled to respect from men. Some take it to its worst logical conclusion: If she is not deemed respectable, or if she disrespects me as the man in her life with a vested interest in her purity and respectability, she will be beaten; she will be raped; she will be killed.”

Attitudes like these don’t just slut-shame women. They also perpetuate myths about sexual violence—like the myth that someone who wears skimpy clothes is asking for it, she points out.

Rather than focus on the individuals posting these comments, Lindsey’s aiming to make us more aware of the ways these sexist ideas show up in all our lives, she told Glamour. “My overall hope is that by providing a stark visual illustration of hypocrisy and sexist double standards, we can all get better at spotting and dismantling sexism in ourselves and our friends, families, [and] communities.”

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