Posted on 05/06/2011 10:44:51 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
BOSTON — An international series of protests known as SlutWalks, sparked by a Toronto police officer's flippant comment that women should avoid dressing like "sluts" to avoid being raped or victimized, is taking root in the United States. Some women and men who protest dress in nothing more remarkable than jeans and T-shirts, while others wear provocative or revealing outfits to bring attention to "slut-shaming," or shaming women for being sexual, and the treatment of sexual assault victims. "It was taking the blame off the rapist and on the victim," said Nicole Sullivan, 21, a student at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and an organizer of the SlutWalk planned Saturday in that city. "So we are using these efforts to reclaim the word 'slut.'" The police officer made his comments in January to a group of York University students at a safety forum. He later apologized, but his comments were publicized widely on Facebook and Twitter. They inspired a march in Toronto last month that drew more than 3,000 people, as well as SlutWalks since then in Dallas, Asheville, North Carolina, and Ottawa, Ontario.
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Eeeew.
Ping because this thread will eventually require your commentary.
“slut” originally meant a slovenly dressed and possibly diseased woman, chiefly prostitutes......
Otherwise known as Friday night at Mall of America.
Could not possibly be more guilty.
*yawn* Call me when they try this in Riyadh...
“Eeeew.”
Just your usual gathering of leftists;)
Typical guy to show up with a group like this.
Not every woman who gets raped dresses provacatively. Nuns in full habit, senior citizens, children get raped. Do they all dress like they are “asking for it”?
...not a decent slut in the bunch....
Those things need not worry about being assaulted sexually,
too busy trying to hold down the vomit coming up my throat
Call me when they try this in Sweden, Latvia, or any European country with a load of hot women. Wielen Danke!
I'm saving my money for the next International Blonde Festival in Riga.
Unfortunately, my wife will likely veto the trip.
I could go on your behalf...
As a red blooded American male, I hope one of these protests come to a town near me. Unfortunately, I think the quality of broads protesting in slutty outfits would be no better than the ones hitting all the other leftist protests. Filthy, ugly hippies and fat pigs.
There’s not enough soap and deodorant in Boston to handle that crowd.
Anything that pisses off Muslims is fine with me.
Ouch!
If these ‘women’ went into the worst neighborhoods dressed this way, the rapists would be running away from them at full speed.
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