I was driving home from dropping my friend off at his place after a long night of drunken female hunting, which was unsuccessful and highly disappointing. When I drove past a rally of about a thousand people, wielding posters and sign cards, I even heard a loud chant as I slowed down to get a good look. I would have kept driving if it wasn’t for all the half naked girls that where strutting down the road.
So I found the nearest parking I could and joined the group of eccentrics thinking that this is just anther one of those weird events that happens in Cape Town.
When I say eccentric I mean eccentric. There were men in red dresses obviously looking embarrassed but it was “for the cause” I did not know what the “cause” was. There where girls painted blue, others where yellow. There where two girls wearing mini skirts and plasters over their nipples. I found myself in the perfect hunting environment and I didn’t even have to pay cover charge.
So hunt I did. I spoke to some of the sluttiest girls I could find and asked “why?”
The answer I got wasn’t what I was imagining, I was expecting something like, “cuz ima slut and I wanna fuck” instead I got an ear full about the power to the women and freedom of expression. I managed to use this to my advantage anyway and pursued a conversation with this girl until a video camera that wanted an interview was more interesting than me.
Before she was whisked away by a man with a mic I found out what the cause was. Turns out there’s a cop in Toronto (that’s in Canada) who made a speech about rape. He was quoted saying, “I should not say this, but if women did not dress like sluts then they would not be raped”
That single sentence instigated ‘slut walks’ all over the world. My comment about what he said doesn’t matter, I’m just glad he did. I was enjoying the fruits of his condemnation. You might think I’m a bad man or whatever, but besides having fun and finding my feet, I lost my voice chanting with the girls who felt objectified which made them feel better.
There was a group conciseness present and everyone had small realizations. I realized that the youth are crazy and it’s not a phase, it’s a paradigm shift.
A man's take on this is interesting, if predictable. It's not unusual or offensive for men to appreciate women in short skirts. What would be interesting though would be to read about your thoughts on the worldwide debate about this. How many men agree with what the Canadian guy said? And what does the slutwalk achieve? How can it hope to make the statement the slutwalkers want it to make, if most of the men who observe the parade see it merely as another opportunity to scope out some female flesh ? 67
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