Slutwalk: because you're not allowed to rape sluts either

[penny7b]

It’s not often that I actually agree with Catherine Deveny, but she’s summed this one up quite well.

For those who are unfamiliar, Slutwalk started in Toronto, Canada, on January 24 2011, a representative of the Toronto Police Force advised a group of university students that: “ women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”.

Comments

[miss_madb]

Yeah, I think a huge part of the dissonance that leads to the subconscious programming that promiscuous or overtly sexual women deserve to be raped is this idea that if a woman is actively looking to pick up (at the absolute extreme of behaviour that can be cited as providing "justification"), then she should accept and settle for any attention she receives; that she has so right to discriminate between suitors. The idea that an openly sexual woman becomes public property - if she is genuinely out for sex (or a no-strings-attached kiss, or flirtation, or heavily sexualised dancing), then she is morally obliged to accept and submit to any response, from any person, and that if she dares to try to be choosey - to reject any interest, or to change her mind at any point about any interest she's accepted and/or reciprocated - then she's somehow denying her unwanted suitor a rightful and just reward that she's obliged to provide