Zombie at PJM hits another one out of the park with an photo essay about a recent event in San Francisco.
This event sprang forth from the fever swamps of modern militant feminism because a police officer in Toronto (that’s right, Canadia) said the wrong thing.
The SlutWalk concept started earlier this year at a crime prevention conference in Canada (yes, Canada) where a clueless Toronto policeman, invited to instruct assembled students how to not become the victims of rape, concluded his talk with one extra bit of advice: “Women should avoid dressing like sluts.”
This seems to be eminently sensible advice, for a whole host of reasons. But to a sufficiently militant feminist, who has a couple degrees in wimmins studies, it is an Insult Of The Highest Possible Order. These wimmins are victims of a strange multiple personality disorder that makes them want to attract attention, then get angry at those whose attention they attract for actually noticing them.
They think wimmins should be able to dress like a hoor in Atlantic City and that anybody (especially men) who notice this and treat them how they are dressed are the lowest sort of algal slime.
The goal is to be as enticing and as repulsive as possible — simultaneously. Sometimes this is accomplished by exposing as much flesh as you dare, while sporting angry man-hating political diatribes, often inked directly onto your body, as we see here.
This isn’t the only incongruity present. These wimmins are angrily protesting that victims of rape should not be blamed for the crime itself. As if anyone actually does that. Even us right-wing loons.
Look at the sign above as an example of SlutWalk’s strawman arguments. It lists the purported real causes of rape. Rape is caused by rapists? Sure — I agree with that. Who could argue? Rape is caused by misogyny? Yeah, OK, I think that’s true, in about half the cases at least. But then things start going off the rails. Rape is caused by…racism? How, exactly? It’s not that I disagree with this argument: I don’t even understand the claim. And lastly, rape is caused by…institutional violence? Wha…???
Like any good lefty march/demonstration/protest, the messages must have some tiny kernel of truth, which is then twisted into all sorts of contradictory shapes.
When SlutWalk first started, one of the goals was to reclaim the word “slut,” and by so doing defuse it as an insult. (Sort of like how the gay community reclaimed “queer,” which in the space of just a few years went from being an insult to being a compliment.) But not everybody got the memo, so now at SlutWalks, half the messages are “I’m a slut and I’m proud!”, and the other half are “I’m no slut, you male chauvinist pig!” This sign exemplifies the second attitude: I am a woman, not any of these other demeaning labels.
This gives us the spectacle of a bunch of wimmins, most of whom normally draw attention to themselves through their somewhat unconventional, decidedly non-sexy dress.
One of the funniest (as in peculiar or disturbing) things these wimmins have to say has to do with prostitution. The organizers of this event are decidedly pro-prostitution in that it is a wimmin’s right to do whatever she wants with her body. The libertarian in me can almost understand that, if not for the inconvenience that prostitution is very exploitative of the actual prostitutes.
And if we focus on SlutWalk’s favorite word, “consent,” are most prostitutes having joyous consensual sex with the partners of their choice? Of course not. The whole reason they demand money for sex is that they don’t really want to have sex with these sweaty lonely losers, and only “consent” to do so out of desperation, because they can think of no other way to get enough money to buy drugs. Without the exchange of cash, they would never consent. So they are having sex against their wishes, which means involuntarily which means that prostitution is in a sense a form of rape.
See what I mean?
Then, as is the case with most of these things, there are the assorted Marxists, Leninists, Pinkos, Bolshies, Maoists, and whatever other far-left kook organizations found out about the event in time to show up.
We can’t forget to slam Christianity in all this mess!
No mention was made of any other world religions that might not see eye to eye with the organizers’ views on wimmins issues like prostitution, rape, extramarital sex, et al.
If you’re up for a real freak show, there are lots of pictures.
Warning: that which has been seen cannot be unseen.
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