"Reality be dammed. We don't need no stinkin' reality. Slut-shaming is so much easier than balance."

[Tansy_Gold]

10. It's the hand she was dealt

Same as brains or musical talent or anything else.

There are athletes out there who can't speak in complete sentences. There are others who are Rhodes scholars. If they choose to cash in on one, don't they have that right, regardless what else they might have?

The point I'm trying to make, and apparently failing at badly, is that if Stiviano weren't physically attractive, she probably wouldn't have been with Sterling in the first place, but even if she were plain, she probably wouldn't be slut-shamed the way she is. She's being shamed less because of what she did and more because of what she is, how she looks, and how she used her looks. The same thing isn't done to athletes, or indeed to most men who barter their looks.

All of us come into the game of life with certain assets, and we have to figure out how best to use those assets to get us through. Some of us have athletic ability, some of us just have good looks. (I have neither, so I guess I should be jealous.) As long as there's nothing illegal involved, there should be no shame involved either.