{"id":4912,"date":"2011-04-19T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:00:40","slug":"found-feminism-slutwalk-street-protests-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/04\/19\/found-feminism-slutwalk-street-protests-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Found
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Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
<p>
  An FF from our Canadian cousins across the pond. Now, for reasons that escape
  me, I&#8217;ve long considered Canada to be a bastion of forward thinking and
  at the forefront of feminist thinking.<\/p>\n
</p>
<p>
  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&#8217;s also a healthy
  culture of individuality and protest. Thus arose today&#8217;s Found Feminism:
  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slutwalktoronto.com\/\">Toronto&#8217;s
  SlutWalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n
</p>
<p>
  Have a look at the clip below which explains everything (well, not
  <em
    >everything<\/em> everything; the creation of the universe or where the
    other sock went is not covered):<\/p>\n
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      <iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"
      src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vOCnZOcr8w\" frameborder=\"0\"
      allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n
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    <p>
      I love inversions and subversions alike, which is why this linguistic
      reclamation project is placing &#8220;slut&#8221; alongside the word
      &#8220;queer&#8221; in my heart. Our very own wordsmith
      <strong
        >Hodge<\/strong> is probably <a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/category\/alphabet\/\">better
        placed<\/a> to go into the history of the word, although my wiki-fu
        tells me that <a
        href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slut#Etymology\"><strong
          >Chaucer<\/strong> used it to apply to lazy men<\/a> before it became
          an insult for sexually promiscuous women.<\/p>\n
          <p>
            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&#8217;m not going to go into
            it here &#8211; let&#8217;s focus on the positive.<\/p>\n
          </p>
          <p>And the positive action.<\/p>\n</p>
          <p>
            There&#8217;s a UK-based sister group planning a SlutWalk in
            Birmingham (Facebook page is<a
            href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slutwalkuk\"> here<\/a>) so sign
            up, click &#8220;like&#8221; or even get your boob tube out and go
            for a walk in Brum. I may well see you there!<\/p>\n
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                                          An FF from our Canadian cousins across
                                          the pond. Now, for reasons that escape
                                          me, I&#8217;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&#8217;s
                                          also a healthy culture of
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