Because We Have Had Enough!
It’s a frightening world when one of the biggest insults you can use against a woman is her sexual freedom. SlutWalk aims to change that, as sexual freedom is absolutely a positive thing and should be treated as such. Together we are standing up as Portlanders and saying we’ve had enough of the slut shaming, enough of the victim blaming, and enough with the violence: against women, against children, against men, against people of color, against members of the LGBTQI community.
SlutWalk is equally about changing attitude around rape as it is about reclaiming slut as a positive force and embracing expressing sexuality.
How often do we hear “She was practically asking to be raped” or “Well, she shouldn’t have been dressed like that”? We aim to abolish rape culture and rape-excusing. No one ever, ever asked to be raped or assaulted. No one is ever “asking for it”, or “had it coming”.
Rape cannot be stopped by carrying your keys between your fingers or “remaining vigilant at all times”. Rape cannot be stopped by considering sex sinful or bad.
Rape can only be stopped if rapists stop raping.
Stop the shaming & blaming. Rape isn’t caused by the victim, it’s caused by the rapist.
If the society was willing to pay to keep crazies in psychiatric lockup then the sluts would not be raped. It goes the other way too. If sluts weren’t going out late at night, asking random strangers for 1-night stands, then they would not encounter the rapists. All things considered, I hate both sluts and crazies. Go back to Hollywood, sluts! Death to crazies.
I think that women have the right to dress however they please. BUT, they need to be aware of the dangers that exist in exposing their bodies to men that do not have a great degree of self-control.
The solution is simple, dress exactly the way you want, and carry a gun. If someone haresses you, or attempts to sexually assault you, you have the means to defend yourself.
Problem solved.
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