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Have you heard about the new phenomenon known as "Slut Walks"? To give you a little background, it all got started with a comment by a Toronto police officer:
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.Of course, the poor cop has been put on a groveling apology tour and his remarks have been described as "ill-advised" or just plain wrong. You have to remember that free speech died in Canada awhile ago, but to compound the effect the feminists got their knickers all in a knot and are now organizing, via social networks, these so-called "Slut Walks" which apparently are designed as protests proclaiming the right of women to wear whatever they want without any consequences.
"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."
Unfortunately, that point of view completely ignores human nature. Now, do I think women should be free to wear whatever they want? Absolutely. I enjoy the view as much as anybody else and the last thing I want is a society in which women walk around in burlap sacks like certain cultures we know. However, the choices are limited to burlap versus skin. There are options in-between.
And do I think there's ever an excuse for sexual assault? Absolutely not. However, this poor cop's only mistake was not in the comment he made but because he didn't explain it as artfully as I'm going to try and do.
Let me see if I can connect the dots in a different way. When I leave my house I close the garage door. Why? Because I have things in there I'd like to keep and I understand human nature well enough to know that by leaving the door open somebody might decide to take things that they have no right to take. Now, I can jump on my moral high horse and declare that there's never any excuse to steal from my garage, but to leave the door open would deny reality and invite unpleasant things. That's not that hard to understand.
Returning to our feminist friends, if a woman decides to go out in public with her sartorial garage door open, so to speak, the reality is someone may decide she's advertising things that aren't really for sale. Men are visual creatures. The entire fashion industry is based on that fact, though I kind of wonder if the feminists really understand that. Human nature is what it is, whether right or wrong, and to try and deny it in the name of feminism or freedom doesn't change it.
Don Surber adds this:
Quote of the day from Nicole Sullivan, 21, a student at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and an organizer of the SlutWalk: “It was taking the blame off the rapist and on the victim. So we are using these efforts to reclaim the word Slut.”Unless of course your moral high horse can outrun a rapist. If that's true, then please disregard.
While she’s at it, she can take back the words Stupid, Naive and Ridiculous.
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I love your blog, but this post is really off. What is "slutty" is relevant. And going with your standard ...
In the muslim world a woman showing her shoulders and ankles is considered slutty. Since I imagine your California wife often wears cloths where her shoulders and ankles are visible, if she were raped by a muslim man would you consider it even a little bit her fault?
Your open garage door analogy just doesn't work. If I walk by your open garage door I may envy your fine tools and quite a few people might consider grabbing something and carrying it off. Picking up something left in the open is pretty easy for a lot of people.
But what if someone is standing there and tells me not to take it. Would I assault them to take it away? Even if it's a teenage kid or woman I could easily overpower? Assault takes it to a whole new level.
A woman walking around looking hot isn't just some genitalia that can be picked up without hurting someone. To rape that woman, you have to get past the violence of assaulting her, of hearing her sob for mercy, and be such a violent bastard you don't care.
Of the several women I've known who were raped by strangers, all were middle aged or older and definitely past their slutty days.
I'm not one for concerns over PC, but in this case that cop got what he deserved. When an assault gets to the point of rape, it truly is a crime of violence and not of passion. As a male who is not a rapist, would you be capable of carrying out a sexual act on a woman whimpering in pain and screaming for mercy, or would your reaction to that be to protect, rather than continue to attack, her?
For normal non-rapist men our instinct is to protect a woman being assaulted.
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