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The Way We View Women Naomi Wolf's essay "The Making of a Slut" describes the conditions and circumstances in which society labels woman as being "good" or "bad" girls and the consequences that go along with each of those labels. It may or may not be morally ok to a "bad" girl. What is important is that a woman does not obtain that label. Wolf makes a point that even after the sexual and feminist …

…writes about an encounter with a friend who tells her how she spent time as a stripper and professional mistress. It is very ironic because the friend was considered to be a "good" girl, but she had been living the part of the "bad" girl. She had somehow escaped the label of the "slut", which proves that people can not judge a book by its cover or judge a person by the way they look.