SlutWalk Explained!

As a society, the questions are always on ‘should a girl be wearing that?’ or ‘is she going to be able to avoid the attention?’. The question is never ‘why does a guy think it’s acceptable to treat a woman like that just because of what she’s wearing? Why do we constantly sexualize women without their consent? Talk to any woman and she’s gonna have a story about being shouted at in the street or being harassed in some way because of what you’re wearing. When that happens to you regularly it dehumanises you, it’s not a compliment. We should really be focusing on teaching young boys, y’know, if you see a girl wearing that, then she’s still just a girl wearing that. She’s not ‘fair game’, you shouldn’t treat people differently based on what they’re wearing.

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My ramble on The Joy of Teen Sex. We also talked a lot about the diversity at the event, the problems relating to slutwalk and about how it’s not just cis-women who are affected by slut-shaming. We talked about whether we’d feel differently if we were bringing up daughters (um, no, I will never teach a child of mine that they are responsible for being raped) and about whether we really can change people’s attitudes. This is the bit they picked. It’s…well, it’s better than nothing! We’ve already got people coming to the Slutwalk group because of it.

If you want to see it, it’s about 36mins in: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-joy-of-teen-sex/4od#3264188

And I think that’s just about enough self-promotion/slutwalk-promotion for one night.

(via loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)