Slutwalk 2011
A Canadian police officer started it all
Women, quite understandably, were annoyed at this as this is a view that should have died a long, long time ago. The view that a woman dressing in a provocative manner would provide a man with an excuse to rape the woman should have died when Susan Brownmiller came out with "Against Our Will " back in 1975.
What Brownmiller pointed was that while "sex" and "rape" are physically similar, they aren't the same thing at all. Whether or not a woman is physically attractive (i.e., "sexy") has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a cruel person may wish to rape her. Brownmiller then cited several instances where young children and grandmothers (i.e., females who would be rated as "not at all sexy") were raped. "Sex" is a process involving mutual consent and the giving and getting of both physical and emotional pleasure. "Rape" involves bullying and forcing someone to do what they do not wish to do.
Unfortunately, since the election of the Tea Party Republicans, we've seen Congress and the states pass a whole raft of anti-women measures centering around sexual issues. "Of the movement's dozen favored candidates for U.S. Senate, all are anti-abortion, and five oppose it even in sinerji notebook tamiri cases of rape and incest." And yeah, supposedly the Tea Party was all about fiscal issues. Ha, ha, ha! So much for the suckers who thoughtthat!
The real problem with the Norweigian mass-murdering terrorist Biletbayisi ucuz ucak bileti yurtdışı ekonomik Andres Breivik was not so much that he was a "lone wolf" or that he was a really strange, fringey, far-out figure with weird, way-out beliefs, but that his beliefs were firmly in the mainstream of the current American right-wing blogosphere.
Daily Kos started a regular weekly feature: This Week in the War on Women. This week, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is the guy that the current Democratic Party felt they had to have, for, y'know, diversity's sake.
Ms. Magazine was upset about the War on Women:
Good speakers! They had strong views and expressed them well. Good day overall.