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Huh? Karrine 'Superhead' Steffans Calls Oprah and Maya Angelou 'Sluts'

She goes in on the icons to make a point.

Karrine "Superhead" Steffans has no chill when it comes to negative comments on social media. On Sunday, while clapping back at one of her followers who posted a rude message, the former video vixen and current wife of Columbus Short wound up shading Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou in the process.

So, how did the two icons get in the middle of Karrine's beef with an Internet troll? It all started when the commenter slammed Karrine over her sexual past by saying she'll never be as respectable as Oprah:

While on the face of it, Karrine's comments about Oprah may seem like a diss, in the rest of her Twitter commentary she points out that she's just highlighting a double standard. Karrine says that like Oprah and Maya Angelou, sexual abuse was a formative experience from her childhood but shouldn't define who she is as a grown woman:

Karrine isn't the first model/video vixen/reality star to speak up against slut-shaming. Amber Rose has practically made it her mission to get society to acknowledge its hypocrisy. Watch our exclusive coverage of her Slut Walk, below:

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