{"id":25428,"date":"2011-05-21T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25428"},"modified":"2011-05-22T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:14:18","slug":"slutwalk-melbourne-omgwtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25428","title":{"rendered":"SlutWalk (Melbourne) OMGWTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwh7iilWrp0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update<\/strong> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/slutwalk-phenomenon-treads-a-fine-line-between-fun-feminism-and-fears-of-female-assault-20110521-1ey0m.html\">SlutWalk phenomenon treads a fine line between fun, feminism and fears of female assault<\/a>, Nicole Brady, <em>The Age<\/em>, May 22, 2011.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>slut<\/strong> \u2022 <em>noun<\/em> a slovenly or promiscuous woman.<br \/>\n&#8211; DERIVATIVES <strong>sluttish<\/strong> <em>adjective<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8211; ORIGIN of unknown origin.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah so there&#8217;s a &#8216;SlutWalk&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slutwalkmelbourne.com\/\">Melbourne<\/a> next weekend (1pm, Saturday May 28), inspired by an event in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slutwalktoronto.com\/\">Toronto<\/a> earlier in the year, organised in response to a Canuckistanian cop&#8217;s comment that &#8220;women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized&#8221; (<em>see<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/sluts-take-to-the-streets-20110510-1egus.html\">&#8216;Sluts&#8217; take to the streets<\/a>, Michelle Griffin, <em>The Age<\/em>, May 10, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>The SlutWalk takes place at the same time as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfc.org.au\/conference.html\">Feminist Futures<\/a> conference (May 28\/29), &#8216;Melbourne&#8217;s Largest Feminist Conference In Over A Decade&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the SlutWalk has obviously provoked a <strike>fair<\/strike> massive amount of debate&#8211;which I guess is a good thing. Paula Matthewson reckons it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thefearlessquill.com\/2011\/05\/19\/slutwalk-is-no-step-forward-for-women\/\">not a Good thing<\/a>; Gail Dines also thinks it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/slutwalk-campaign-harms-20110512-1ekva.html\">unhelpful<\/a>. A coupla days ago, there was some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/audio\/2011\/05\/16\/3218162.htm\">disco<\/a> on ABC radio on the subject, featuring co-organiser Clem Bastow. Clem has a few moar thoughts on the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/clembastow.tumblr.com\/post\/5463766372\/hey-victim-blaming-slutwalk-doubters\">here<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>A recent rabble.ca article (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleofcolororganize.com\/?s=slutwalk\">People Of Color Organize!<\/a>) by Harsha Walia examines the question of whether <a href=\"http:\/\/rabble.ca\/news\/2011\/05\/slutwalk-march-or-not-march\">&#8216;To march or not to march&#8217;<\/a> (May 18, 2011). It concludes on a somewhat ambivalent note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Slutwalk may like to present itself as a movement, I would argue that it isn&#8217;t. Rather, it is simply one part of a broader movement to end violence against women. Similarly, my reflection is just that &#8212; one person&#8217;s rant in a wider spectrum of opinion. It does not (pejoratively) imply that I am a &#8220;sister who fell for Slutwalk,&#8221; nor does it imply my uncritical endorsement. As Berthold Brecht said: &#8220;In the contradiction lies the hope.&#8221; Whether or not Slutwalk is around, there are hundreds of thousands of us who continue to live and organize every day to eliminate heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/randomette.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/why-slut-in-slutwalk-is-important.html\">Why the &#8216;Slut&#8217; in &#8216;Slutwalk&#8217; is important&#8230;<\/a>, Little Miss Random, May 19, 2011 | <a href=\"http:\/\/web.overland.org.au\/2011\/05\/strutting-the-slut\/\">Strutting the slut<\/a>, <em>Overland<\/em>, May 17, 2011 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministfrequency.com\/2011\/05\/link-round-up-feminist-critiques-of-slutwalk\/\">Link Round Up: Feminist Critiques of SlutWalk<\/a>, Feminist Frequency, May 16, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>punk<\/strong> \u2022 <em>noun<\/em> 1 (also <strong>punk rock<\/strong>) a loud, fast form of rock music characterized by aggressive and anarchic lyrics and behaviour. 2 (also <strong>punk rocker<\/strong>) an admirer or player of punk music. 3 informal, chiefly N. Amer.: a worthless person; a thug or criminal&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; DERIVATIVES <strong>punkish<\/strong> adjective <strong>punky<\/strong> adjective.<br \/>\n&#8211; ORIGINS perhaps, in some senses, related to archaic punk &#8216;prostitute&#8217;, also to <strong>SPUNK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YwNVE37BGVE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update : SlutWalk phenomenon treads a fine line between fun, feminism and fears of female assault, Nicole Brady, The Age, May 22, 2011.] slut \u2022 noun a slovenly or promiscuous woman. &#8211; DERIVATIVES sluttish adjective. &#8211; ORIGIN of unknown origin. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=25428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,16,14,9,15],"tags":[1228,1229,1226,1227],"class_list":["post-25428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-sex-sexuality","category-state","category-war-on-terror","tag-everyone-else-has-had-more-sex-than-me","tag-i-like-fucking","tag-slutwalk","tag-slutwalk-melbourne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-6C8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25428"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25476,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25428\/revisions\/25476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}