SlutWalks

Mikey · Jun 5, 2011

As one Toronto SlutWalk sign put it: “Don’t tell us how to dress. Tell men not to rape.” It’s this — the proactive, fed-upness of SlutWalks — that makes me so hopeful for the future.

Established organizations have good reason to do their work in a way that’s palatable to the mainstream. They need support on Capitol Hill and funding from foundations and donors. But a muted message will only get us so far.

“We called ourselves something controversial,” Jarvis says. “Did we do it to get attention? Damn right we did!”

Nineteen year-old Miranda Mammen, who participated in SlutWalk at Stanford University, says the idea of “sluttiness” resonates with younger women in part because they are more likely than their older counterparts to be called sluts. “It’s also loud, angry, sexy in a way that going to a community activist meeting often isn’t,” she says.

But the success of SlutWalks does herald a new day in feminist organizing. One when women's anger begins online but takes to the street, when a local step makes global waves and when one feminist action can spark debate, controversy and activism that will have lasting effects on the movement.
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Small portion of the article, the entire thing could be read from clicking on the link.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...re-of-feminism/2011/06/01/AGjB9LIH_story.html
Just read this out of the newspaper, what do you all think?

hntr18 · Jun 5, 2011

ive heard about these

Soulthinker · Jun 5, 2011

That cop is a strange one especially in Canada.

TheHuntress · Jun 5, 2011

I'm so glad they did this. I fully support these walks.

Slut-shaming is so common, especially when it comes to rape victims. I mean, really, you truly believe that if I had been wearing a turtle neck walking down the street at night that I would have been less likely to be raped?! HONESTLY?!

If someone has it out for you, it doesn't matter what you're wearing, and they'll use it for an excuse every time. Personally, I find it disgusting how rape victims are treated..

What that cop said was completely unacceptable. I remember when it first happened, people were just beyond shocked.

hntr18 · Jun 5, 2011

Dreaming_Blue said: ↑

I'm so glad they did this. I fully support these walks.

Slut-shaming is so common, especially when it comes to rape victims. I mean, really, you truly believe that if I had been wearing a turtle neck walking down the street at night that I would have been less likely to be raped?! HONESTLY?!

If someone has it out for you, it doesn't matter what you're wearing, and they'll use it for an excuse every time. Personally, I find it disgusting how rape victims are treated..

What that cop said was completely unacceptable. I remember when it first happened, people were just beyond shocked.
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true but if you dress slutish your only going to be looked at in a sexual way and not like a person which your are. they can dehumanize you saying "she was dressed like that so she must have wanted to be raped" or something similar to that

Mikey · Jun 5, 2011

I understand its purpose, the intent that they have makes sense.

The name of their movement is the thing that sounds kind of intimidating.

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