street harrassment – Bad Reputation A feminist pop culture adventure Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 Found Feminism: “SlutWalk” Street Protests in Toronto /2011/04/19/found-feminism-slutwalk-street-protests-in-toronto/ /2011/04/19/found-feminism-slutwalk-street-protests-in-toronto/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:40 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=4912 An FF from our Canadian cousins across the pond. Now, for reasons that escape me, I’ve long considered Canada to be a bastion of forward thinking and at the forefront of feminist thinking.

So it saddened me a little to find out that victim blaming is as rife on that side of the Atlantic as over here. Fortunately, there’s also a healthy culture of individuality and protest. Thus arose today’s Found Feminism: Toronto’s SlutWalk.

Have a look at the clip below which explains everything (well, not everything everything; the creation of the universe or where the other sock went is not covered):

I love inversions and subversions alike, which is why this linguistic reclamation project is placing “slut” alongside the word “queer” in my heart. Our very own wordsmith Hodge is probably better placed to go into the history of the word, although my wiki-fu tells me that Chaucer used it to apply to lazy men before it became an insult for sexually promiscuous women.

Now whilst I am the first person to get all mumsy and worry over scantily clad people gadding about, I will fight to defend their right to do so without being blamed if they are harrassed or assaulted. Because that is absurd and I’m not going to go into it here – let’s focus on the positive.

And the positive action.

There’s a UK-based sister group planning a SlutWalk in Birmingham (Facebook page is here) so sign up, click “like” or even get your boob tube out and go for a walk in Brum. I may well see you there!

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  • Hollaback NYC have posted a video of a woman calling out a man who flashed her and rubbed up against her on the NYC subway. I see his penis out! CBS New York reports that he was brought to justice due to her actions.
  • After the flasher was caught, Jezebel reported on The Disturbing World of Dickflash.com, a forum for flashers, who swap tips about how not to get caught, and who, regarding the NYC subway flasher were asking ‘Is this one of us?’ Let’s hope so, people.
  • Also at Jezebel, and very NSFW let us add, is this article by Irin Carmon, on Playboy models and Photoshopping.
  • You’re probably seen the Privilege Denying Dude meme – here’s an interview with the creator of the meme, Diana Lopez, at Colorlines, and as at the time of posting the site is currently down (although shortly to return, we hear, with a new model), you can keep up with her, and further news of PDD, at her tumblr account.


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