Kim Kardashian’s essay on International Women’s Day was … awesome, actually.

Chances are, you feel some sort of way about Kim Kardashian.

She’s built a career on snapping selfies, starring in reality TV, and blanketing the home pages of tabloid websites. She’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and hey that’s perfectly fine.

Anybody who tries to say how a woman chooses to display their OWN body is wrong, is severely misinformed and misguided. Abigail Breslin (@yoabbaabba) March 8, 2016

And actor and model Emily Ratajkowski, who said it like it is.

Love when a man comments on a woman

“Modern Family” star Ariel Winter pointed out a hard truth.

No one was body shaming @justinbieber when he posted his nude guitar photo so why @KimKardashian? #herbodyherchoice #InternationalWomensDay Ariel Winter (@arielwinter1) March 8, 2016

And model Chrissy Teigen cracked a joke about the whole situation in support of her friend.

@KimKardashian well iiiiiiiii just ordered thai food christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 8, 2016

Actor (and all around amazing human) Rowan Blanchard also stood up for the reality star.

“Why are feminists mad at Kim K [for] consensually posting a pic of her own body,” Blanchard tweeted, noting that women should use the power of the selfie in whatever way they choose. Nonconsensual nudes of women are leaked all the time by abusers and [you] are mad at a woman being proud of and happy with her own body?”

Slut-shaming harms girls and women in many ways. And Kardashian deserves a thumbs up for getting it right this time around.

Slut-shaming hinders gender equality in many ways even when it’s subtle. It sets double standards between men and women when it comes to sexual liberation (because who wants to be that girl, who’s known for sleeping with half the class?). It contributes to rape culture (because if a girl was asking for it by the way she dresses, then it’s sort of her fault, too, huh?). And it welcomes adolescence bullying (because it’s OK to judge the girl who wears too much makeup or wears the wrong clothes, right?).

Kardashian is by no means the perfect feminist (and really, no one is), and she’s definitely not always on the right side of the body-positivity train (her comments about her brother’s weight gain, for example). But this time, she really put the patriarchy in its place.

GIF via “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

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