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buffalobill90 On July 12, 2013
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#1New Post! May 08, 2011 @ 08:39:26
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13320785

@BBC News Said

A new protest movement sparked by a policeman's ill-judged advice to women students to "avoid dressing like sluts" has taken root in the US and Canada.

Thousands of people - some dressed in jeans, others more provocatively - are taking part in marches, or "SlutWalks".

The aim, say organisers, is to highlight a culture in which the victim rather than rapist or abuser is blamed.

...Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti had been giving a talk on health and safety to a group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto when he made the now infamous remarks.

"You know, I think we're beating around the bush here," he reportedly told them. "I've been told I'm not supposed to say this - however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised."


The aim is apparently to combat the view, still prevalent among some quarters of the developed world, that women who dress provocatively are partially responsible for sexual crimes committed against them, and to re-appropriate the word 'slut'. Good on them, I say.

https://www.slutwalktoronto.com/
treebee On April 13, 2015
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#5New Post! May 08, 2011 @ 13:47:55
I doubt it will change any attitudes but good luck to them. Maybe it will.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




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#6New Post! May 08, 2011 @ 13:53:23
Where's this parade taking place?
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