"Slut Walk" In Boston
I give them a 10 for their cause, but no higher than a 3 for the presentation.
A police officer in Canada made a thoughtless comment that women might not get raped or attacked as often if they didn't dress like "sluts."
A woman should be able to dress libidinously without fear of being raped. Perhaps she shouldn't even suffer the indignity of being called a slut, but I caution she won't escape being thought of as one.
The officer misses making a point by a wide mark. There is no proof that women scandalously dressed are attacked in higher proportion than other women.
In response to the remark, there was a "slut walk" in Canada. Now it's catching on. Even though the police officer apologized, American rebels lacking a cause have decided to take up this one and staged a "Slut Walk" in Boston, organized by students from U Mass.
At least in the photo the students don't appear to be so aligned with the target of the policeman's comment that they donned the required dress. Still though...do any of them have parents who dreamed of turning on the news and seeing their child marching under the sign, "Slut Pride?" What happens to young brains during the higher education process?
I fear the day my own daughter goes off to college in about 15 months. Can't she just stay 17 and live at home?
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Dec '10
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I believe the officer meant "infidel whores".
I think there is a correlation between women who dress that way and those who suffer rape.
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AmishDude: I believe the officer meant "infidel whores".
I think there is a correlation between women who dress that way and those who suffer rape. · May 6 at 2:46pm
Source?
Dec '10
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My youngest (all three are girls) goes off to college, God willing and the creek don't rise, in 15 months as well.
My oldest just got admitted to grad school. While I wouldn't say she's a model conservative, she was waaaaay to the right of her classmates at UC Santa Cruz -- maybe the experience of having had a job during high school and seeing what withholding meant had something to do with that.
My middle one is in a joint program of Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She seems "socially conservative" in terms of personal demeanor (though she is in the Columbia sketch comedy group, Chowdah). Not sure she's politically as sound, however.
If you have equipped her with a sensible world view and the courage to stand firm in her beliefs, your daughter should be fine, even if she ends up in a college full of mushy-brained liberals.
Dec '10
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The irony is that a girl in slutty attire may not be more at risk of being attacked, but she may inspire a rapist to seek out some meeker, weaker girl -- immodestly dressed or not -- to attack.
May '10
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Of all the pointless outrages to devote ones energy to... Good grief.
Jul '10
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People are lining up to be outraged, begging for it, actually. The only longer line is for people who see themselves as victims. Michael Moore has got fat off it.
Apr '11
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When I was an undergrad there was a scheduled "Take Back The Night" march, supposedly to prove that women should be allowed to wear whatever they want and still not be blamed for rape. All day long my fellow students were talking about women's issues, but come nightfall, the ladies in the march decided to take off their shirts and protest topless. The minute they did that, they lost, because everyone (male and female) was suddenly glued to the window, ogling at the boobies. They hurt their own cause.
Jul '10
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"... a 10 for their cause... [?!!]"
I can't think of anything more asinine.
"Slut Pride [?!!]"
And You post this........
May '10
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Tommy De Seno
AmishDude: I believe the officer meant "infidel whores".
I think there is a correlation between women who dress that way and those who suffer rape. · May 6 at 2:46pm
Source? · May 6 at 2:48pm
I think this is a swipe at misogynistic Islamists.
Mar '11
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Line of the day!
Feb '11
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I'm sorry, but I just can't believe that story without properly documented photographic evidence.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to smack myself for actually making that comment.
May '10
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My fraternity -- sensitive altruists, every one of them -- would have been thrilled to recruit women willing to support this noble cause.
May '10
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Perhaps it will catch on in Warren or Dearborn, Michigan, and we can see women really standing up for their rights against a real oppressor.
One idiot cop makes a stupid remark blaming women for inciting rape, and protests break out across two countries. A father kills his step-daughter for not wearing the veil as an honour killing, but nothing to see here, just another Muslim man treating his wife/daughters as a chattel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383603/Devout-Muslim-stalks-step-daughter-states-killing-Western.html#ixzz1LWgGwCdU
(Sad thing is, I was looking for an article in google on another honour killing; but this came up in the search list as it was more recent.)
Edited on May 6, 2011 at 10:06pmApr '11
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I think that the cop made a stupid, uniformed comment. I think that a rape victim never "has it coming". If it can be proven that the cop has allowed this misinformed view to effect prosecution of a case or mistreatment of a victim, get him fired and sue him. That said.
Dressing like a "slut" means different things to different ppl but on the whole is a bad thing that doesn't need to be defended. Usually women who don't value themselves tend to be more revealing than they want/need to be. So maybe, just maybe it doesn't need to be glorified. But that would be logical and we are talking about liberal universities....
Mar '11
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The issue of women dressing and acting in whatever manner they please is one I can understand people wishing to support, however the manner in which these individuals are doing so is rather disturbing. They have transformed it completely from the principle of women having the right to act and dress as their own free choice dictates into one of "pride" in being a slut. Do they actually understand the message they are sending?
May '10
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Ottoman Umpire
My fraternity -- sensitive altruists, every one of them -- would have been thrilled to recruit women willing to support this noble cause. · May 6 at 9:00pm
Ump - I detect a hint of sarcasm in your post.
Aug '10
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Hmm... the most revealing outfit I see in that photograph is the pale, chunky guy who has his shirt off.
I used to subscribe to the doctrine that a gal should be able to wear whatever she wants, walk wherever she wants, whenever she wants, without fear of harassment. I will teach my daughters to be more circumspect than I was, though.
Apr '11
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Precisely.
Those who scream the loudest about a fairly idiotic comment from an obscure public official (in the multi-culti Great White North, no less) are invariably silent on the topic of the systematic, degrading, often brutal, and religiously-sanctioned oppression of women in most of the Islamic world--and in Western nations where Islam[ism] is being allowed to take hold. (And if they do have anything to say on the subject, it is only to dismiss as "Islamophobes" those with the temerity to broach it.)
Edited on May 31, 2011 at 6:58pm