After she said that, she looked over towards me and I smiled at her, and said, “why isn’t it acceptable? Isn’t that what this whole walk is about? Or are you just a hypocrite?”. She at least had the decency to look embarrassed.
However, regardless of my support for your right not to be raped; I must state emphatically that you have no right to demand I give you my respect. I reserve the right to give my respect only to those whom I actually deem worthy. I have no respect for sluts. You may take back the word if you like, but I do not see how you or anyone else can define a slut as meaning anything other than a dirty, slovenly, immoral, dissolute, or loose woman.
I’ll state clearly what we all know, but that nobody seems willing to admit. Slut walk is possible only because these privileged trotters are the most pampered, protected, consequence-immune demographic who have ever taken up public space in human history.
Ah, but we really can’t. Not with any real concern for women who actually are victims of rape. Personally, considering men are the more frequent but utterly ignored victims of rape, and with the epidemic of false rape accusations and corrupt prosecutions becoming just as pervasive, my interest in women who get raped any more is somewhere near as intense as my interest in cake decorating and midget wrestling.
(Sung to the tune of “Walk Like an Egyptian“) Don your tube top, paint that face like you’re charging fifty cents Bend over slow – oh hey ho – and spread ‘em for the men Now take a shot, show your slot, you know it’s just pretend Now drink some more – oh hey ho …
In truth, the practice of women dressing in “sluttish” attire outside the context of parades through Toronto’s downtown, is purposeful. A woman dressing in a deliberately sexually provocative style is flaunting her sexual power over men. She is saying, in a language older than any spoken or written:
“I am an object of sexual desire, and I am a person of protected status”
During a scheduled safety forum held at Osgoode Hall Law School on Jan. 24 Const. Michael Sanguinetti of the Toronto Police department made the comment: “You know, I think we’re beating around the bush here, I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this, however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to …
