[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a metropolitan city in North America, a 24 year old woman holds up a sign. She is surrounded by hundreds of other women, all gathered to march in protest through the city’s downtown. They have assembled to protest the continued illegal Israeli blockade of food, water and medical supplies to Palestine. And to to call for a halt to Israel’s bombing of schools, mosques, hospitals, universities and residential buildings.
Uh, Nope.
Okay, These women are assembled to demand that the catholic church answer charges of 30 years of willful complicity and cover-up in the sexual abuse of boys by catholic clergy.
No.
The Hundreds of women gathered in the city center to march in demand of the closure of Guantanamo Bay, and the illegal detainment of hundreds of individuals without trial, and to call for an end to torture through water-boarding by the Obama administration.
Wrong again.
It turns out that thousands of women gathered and marched in downtown Toronto to protest a Toronto police officer’s suggestion during a scheduled talk on safety at York University, that women should not dress like sluts to avoid sexual victimization. The officer has since been publicly flogged, hung, drawn and quartered, and diced before being served, fried in olive oil on rye crackers.
The young slut holds up her sign for a photograph. It reads :
Women DO NOT get raped because they were:
- drinking or taking drugs
- dressed provocatively
- being reckless
WOMEN GET RAPED BECAUSE SOMEONE
RAPED! THEM! *&^%$#!
She smiles cutely for the photo, while a male bystander shouts his encouragement: “I love sluts!”
This young woman is of course, dressed like a slut, as are many of the other slutty protesters.
Clearly, we live in sickening culture which attempts to oppress sluts by forcing personal volition and self-responsibility on them. It is a disgrace that after 50 years of struggle for equality, we are all still so backward in our thinking. That we would force a slut who engaged in drug or alcohol fueled reckless behavior to take the responsibility blame for her choices is a public disgrace.
That a police officer would suggest personal responsibility for the outcome of reckless behavior is a chilling metric of how much work is still left undone by feminists. It truly reflects poorly on all of us, when thousands of sluts have to march in the streets to fight for their right to take no personal responsibility, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
I know I am.
