Deconstructing Slutwalk: A photo essay

EvilPundit · 2011-08-09T19:42:36+00:00

Pull quote:

But that leads me to The Second Thing You Need to Know: This tilting at imaginary windmills is intentional. The goal is to protest an evil that is universally hated. That way, if anybody dares to disagree with you or even raise a minor quibble, you can shoot back, “What? Are you FOR rape? Do you think we SHOULD blame victims? You’re part of the problem!” As a result of this stance, your cause becomes above reproach, immune from criticism.

THEN… (did you really think the strategy stopped there? Tsk tsk tsk) once you’ve assumed this mantle of moral perfection, you can start heaping all sorts of ancillary ultimatums and issues onto your list of demands, and no one is allowed to resist or complain, lest you once again neutralize them with “Blaming the victim again, are we? Pig!”

This video that one of we sluts took of a speaker at SlutWalk reveals exactly this point about ancillary ultimatums: She sprinkles in a few self-evidently true statements at the beginning to lure you in, then starts making increasingly bizarre claims that stray further and further from reality, and then arrives at her actual destination: To politicize rape and turn into a wedge issue for all sorts of progressive/feminist/leftist demands:

abk0100 · 2011-08-09T23:53:37+00:00

Furthermore, it could very easily be argued that most prostitutes, even those who entered the trade “voluntarily,” only did so because they are addicted to drugs and need money to feed their habits. And if we focus on SlutWalk’s favorite word, “consent,” are most prostitutes having joyous consensual sex with the partners of their choice? Of course not. The whole reason they demand money for sex is that they don’t really want to have sex with these sweaty lonely losers, and only “consent” to do so out of desperation, because they can think of no other way to get enough money to buy drugs. Without the exchange of cash, they would never consent. So they are having sex against their wishes, which means involuntarily which means that prostitution is in a sense a form of rape.

So we at SlutWalk are against prostitution. Right?

I was really with him until this part. "A lot of prostitutes are forced into it, therefore, prostitution should be universally disapproved of."

No, a lot prostitutes are forced into it, therefore that kind of prostitution should be disapproved of.

Is he just trying to do a "this is their logic" kind of thing? Because that's just an entire paragraph of unconnected conclusions.

iTroll_irl · 2011-08-09T21:36:44+00:00

Even after hearing multiple explanations, these slutwalks make about as much sense to me as wiping my ass with a cactus does.

ihireaperihi · 2011-08-10T03:35:58+00:00

are they retarded? they contradict themselves so much

Revorob · 2011-08-10T00:44:55+00:00

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2011-08-09T21:37:39+00:00

Only religious nuts say that it's their fault for being raped.

2011-08-10T07:41:34+00:00

LOL, the comments. "If you leave your keys in your car and it gets stolen, in what sense if any are you “to blame” for the theft?"

It's a good bet these san francisco Mission hipster folks don't own cars, just bikes. And they wouldn't leave them any place in that neighborhood without sturdy locks.

Title	Deconstructing Slutwalk: A photo essay
Author	EvilPundit
Upvotes	12
Comments	12
Date	August 9, 2011 7:35 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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