Video: "Women Walking" on the Street: A Women's Rights Movement in Toronto
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Dressed up like a walking woman!", - these words can be heard not only from the lips of bored grandmothers on the bench at the entrance. Much worse is when these words come from the mouth of a strong and clearly aggressive man who approaches a girl in a park with no unequivocal intentions. "Dressed up like a walking woman!" is the "excuse" that is used even in rape courts. The women of Canada don't want to hear it anymore. That is why 1000 frivolously dressed women came out on streets of toronto with a poster: "I am a walking woman!".
Light and “defiant” clothing is, according to a widespread stereotype, an excellent excuse for rape. However, studies by forensic scientists and psychologists show that the rapist does not enjoy "sex" at all. He commits a crime out of hatred or a desire to show his power. The victim is never to blame for being attacked - the culprit is to blame, only the culprit, and no one but him.
This is what the participants of the action are trying to prove. "Slut Walk". "Walking women" took to the streets after Constable Michael Sanguinetti said in January: "Women should not dress like walking women to avoid being attacked." Women's rights movement responded: hundreds of people came out to the Queen Elizabeth Park with colorful posters protesting against discrimination against the fairer sex. "Walking women" on the street attracted attention in every possible way, thus arranging something like a social performance.
As you can see, "Stop the violence!" is not only an anti-war slogan. Unfortunately, women's rights movement - this is mainly the prerogative of women themselves, both in Canada and in Russia. Meanwhile, we also have enough clever people who declare the "woman's fault" and that burqa and handkerchiefs - the best protection against violence … Especially in the Orthodox Church, where at the end of last year, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin … "Dressed up like a walker" - how sweet it is to hear such maxims from the lips of a "follower" of a Man who saved a real harlot from being stoned!
We do not know if the women's rights movement will achieve its goals and whether the number of rapes will decrease. But at least Canadian women will not be shot over the heads from paintball guns - as in Grozny, when they see a passer-by not wearing a burqa. Maybe some Russian cities would also benefit from the appearance armed with posters of "walking" in the streets?
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