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[buria_q]

I've been reading up on intersectionality critiques of slutwalk lately. There is also a critique up ("Slutwalk vs. Ho Strolls") from Crunk Feminist Collective referring to racialized historical conceptions of "purity" and "chastity", black women's struggles against words like bitch, ho, etc and the politics of reclamation in LJ debunkingwhite.

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[maynardsong]

Very much on point, and I agree wholeheartedly.

[doctorrobotnik]

very interesting reading, thanks for sharing. i have not heard of this blog before and have been looking through it and learning a lot.

[lavendersparkle]

First hears about Slutwalk I thought "Well that's great for them but it's not for me." I keep most of my body covered in public, I'm monogamously married and I don't even have a very high sex drive. I got the impression that the march was only for women who liked wearing more revealing clothes or engaging in sexual practices they are likely to be shamed for, which may have been my own fault for not reading enough about it. However, if it's just another don't rape/don't victim blame march, why not do a Reclaim the Night or one of the other preexisting marches. I can't help but think that maybe it's got to the point where we have to use performative female sexuality to sell anti-rape campaigning, just like we use it to sell everything else

[buria_q]

good points.

[buria_q]

we are afraid to click, lol.

[luighseach]

I'm in two minds about this. What you said is true. The right to choose is pretty basic in theory. In real life we all know there are some major incentives built into our choosing.

At the same time, that there is ANYTHING that can negate the right not to be raped tells me it can be very useful to address that anything directly. Of course, if this is done instead if good analysis then that is not good, but if both are being done, then good.

I want more REAL choice, not just the right to take off my clothes.

[buria_q]

To clarify, I didn't write the second piece, btw. It's an analysis by Harsha Walia.

[luighseach]

Oups, sorry, I didn't catch that.