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The #AmberRoseSlutWalk: Feminism as Public Celebration of Inchoate Rage

Posted on | October 4, 2015 | 52 Comments

 

Before attempting to describe Saturday’s event in Los Angeles — a tawdry carnival of celebrity-driven feminist lunacy — I must first remind you how, when and where the “Slut Walk” movement began.

In January 2011, a Toronto police official, Constable Michael Sanguinetti, gave a presentation on the topic of crime prevention at York University, during the course of which he said that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” This incited a huge controversy and, although official apologies were issued, Canadian feminists refused to be placated or appeased. Among these implacable women was Heather Jarvis, a self-described “queer feminist activist,” who was then 25 and attending Guelph University. In an interview, she explained the idea behind the first Slut Walk:

Jarvis says an apology is simply not enough.
“We are still skewed toward victim-blaming,” she explained. “Most sexual assaults don’t happen to a woman in a short skirt by a stranger in an alleyway. We need (Toronto Police) to modify their education and training.”
After Jarvis connected online with York graduate student Sonya Barnett, they enlisted the help of three other women — Alyssa Teekah, Jeanette Janzen and Erika Jane Scholz — to organize the walk. The controversially named protest came from an “instinctual place,” Jarvis says, and should not deter women, or men, from supporting their cause.
“Reclaiming language is not new,” Jarvis said. “It can be very powerful. (Slut) is a word that is used day in and day out to damage us. Let’s use it to empower us.” . . .
“We need to say that blaming victims of sexual assault is not OK.”

Thus, the concept of women marching in deliberately provocative clothing and embracing the word “slut” had a specific origin, but was aimed generally at promoting certain feminist ideas — criticism of women’s sexual behavior is never permissible, and it is “blaming victims of sexual assault” to expect women to take reasonable precautions for their own safety. Feminists say it is misogyny to suggest that women “dressing like sluts” are at greater risk of rape. The first Slut Walk, in April 2011, was intended to make the point that women ought to be able to parade half-naked in the streets without fear.

That first march spawned imitations in many other cities — I covered the 2013 Slut Walk in Washington, D.C. — but this movement’s meaning and purpose has really never been very coherent. Constable Sanguinetti apologized immediately for his remark, and the protesters in Toronto weren’t saying anything that feminists hadn’t said before, going back to the “Take Back the Night” rallies of the late 1970s and ’80s.

What the “Slut Walk” movement has made obvious, really, are the inherent contradictions of liberal “pro sex” feminism, which celebrates irresponsible promiscuity as the measure of women’s “empowerment,” even while condemning men who react to such wanton behavior by regarding women as “sex objects.” Liberal feminists act as if men alone are to blame for the putrid decadence of contemporary sexual culture. Women can do whatever they want and never be held responsible for the consequences, whereas any man who says a word of criticism or disapproval is denounced by feminists as a hateful monster.

Thus we come to Saturday’s “Slut Walk” event in Los Angeles, which was organized by a hiphop celebrity named Amber Rose, whose B-list biography can be summarized in fewer than 140 characters:

Abby Sewell of the Los Angeles Times describes Saturday’s carnival:

In a scene that was half-red carpet paparazzi circus, half-political protest, several hundred people joined stripper turned model Amber Rose at Pershing Square on Saturday afternoon for an event dubbed SlutWalk.
The event was promoted as a way to express “outrage toward issues of sexual violence, gender inequality, derogatory labeling and victim blaming.” . . .
The mostly female crowd, some shirtless, others in costume and in various states of dress, carried signs declaring “My Clothes Are Not My Consent” and “The Way I Dress Does Not Mean Yes.”
Rose, bearing a sign that read “Strippers Have Feelings Too,” led the group on a brief march up and down Olive Street as curious tourists and shoppers, and a few hecklers, watched. . . .
Some of the attendees said they were drawn by the star power of Rose, who first came into the limelight in 2008 when she was dating rapper Kanye West.
Courtney Scott, 22, attended with her mother and sister from Los Alamitos after learning about the event on Rose’s Instagram. She said she wanted to spread the message against “slut shaming,” but also was excited to catch a glimpse of Rose.
“She’s really comfortable in who she is,” Scott said. “She’s not ashamed of her past.”
There were some parts of Rose’s past that she evidently wanted to avoid discussing Saturday, however.
A document distributed to media covering the event listed “approved topics” of coverage, including “Amber Rose Slut Walk LA,” “feminist platform,” “other projects/business ventures Amber is working on,” and “Amber’s fashion.”
It added the injunction: “No Questions regarding Kanye West or Kim Kardashian.”

A minor celebrity, whose chief claim to fame is that her ex-boyfriend is now involved with a Kardashian. wants the world to know that “Strippers Have Feelings Too.” It’s so . . . profound. Meanwhile, this happened:

Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was ejected from the Amber Rose Slut Walk in Los Angeles [Saturday] afternoon. Slut Walkers could be heard yelling to police officers, “Thanks for taking out the trash!”?
Yiannopoulos was reporting from the event with a film crew, interviewing Rebel Media broadcaster and Canadian libertarian politician Lauren Southern about the feminist movement which protests against “rape culture” and “slut-shaming.”
Southern had just asked host Amber Rose whether she believed in rape culture. Event organizers immediately announced to Breitbart that they were calling law enforcement to have both journalists escorted from Pershing Square in downtown LA.
Protesters snatched and tore up Yiannopoulos’s placard, which read: “‘Rape Culture And Harry Potter’: Both Fantasy” in view of the police, who stood by while protesters bellowed and grabbed at a second placard that read, “Regret is not Rape.”?

You see asking questions — being skeptical of feminism’s truth-claims — is impermissible in 21st-century America. Are women really victims of “rape culture”? Is promiscuity actually “empowering” for women? You aren’t even allowed to ask these questions, and certainly you can’t expect feminists to provide coherent answers.

Feminism is never a dialogue. It is a lecture, a diatribe, a one-sided totalitarian propaganda of hatred, demonizing males as scapegoats who are always to blame for anything and everything.





 

Category: Sex Trouble

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52 Responses to “The #AmberRoseSlutWalk: Feminism as Public Celebration of Inchoate Rage”

  1. Mike G.
    October 4th, 2015 @ 7:20 pm

    Well, from the looks of the women in the photo,( thanks for that, by the way /sarc), they don’t have to worry about “rape culture.”

    Even guys I know who’s motto was “8 to 80, blind, crippled or crazy”, wouldn’t touch those chicks.

  2. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 4th, 2015 @ 7:37 pm

    They are out of their minds

  3. John Oliver
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:06 pm

    Caption of the photo should be: “Meet the women of the Democrat Party”!

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  5. Steve Skubinna
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:16 pm

    And Barbie is bad for girls’ self esteem? Do I have that right?

  6. Matthew W
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:35 pm

    “they don’t have to worry about “rape culture.””

    Hey, another freaky bull dyke of their own kind might go after them.

    But they are at least safe from any male with vision.

  7. Matthew W
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:35 pm

    “Typical Obama Voter?”

  8. DeadMessenger
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:35 pm

    MY EYES! THEY BURN!

    McCain needs a “may cause blindness or alcoholism” disclaimer in the headline.

  9. Wombat_socho
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:41 pm

    Precisely. Because Patriarchy. /sarc

  10. DeadMessenger
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:51 pm

    Their parents must be so proud.

  11. Adobe_Walls
    October 4th, 2015 @ 8:59 pm

    And yet their movement is on the rise.

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  13. Fail Burton
    October 4th, 2015 @ 11:16 pm

    Slut Walk – Cairo, Egypt has been canceled due to fears of: mass rape/groping, virginity tests by the army, severe beatings, heat stroke, sunburn, rock throwing, mass arrests.

  14. Daniel Freeman
    October 4th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm

    Is it? The overreach seems more like the last gasps of a decadent and dying movement. Maybe that’s wishful thinking…

  15. Matt_SE
    October 5th, 2015 @ 12:10 am

    The annual running of the cows.

  16. Joe Guelph
    October 5th, 2015 @ 12:11 am

    Mr. Yiannopoulos and Ms. Southern got their tactics wrong.
    What they should have done was to put out a call in their respective media outlets for *simpatico* folks to join them for a counter-protest. Then they could have led the counter-protestors in *laughing hysterically* and pointing at the SlutWalkers.
    I guarantee that making these brain-damaged attention-whores the object of loud, public derision, would have stopped the event cold.

  17. concern00
    October 5th, 2015 @ 12:51 am

    “Ewww, I’m ashamed to call those things females” said my wife.

  18. Prime Director
    October 5th, 2015 @ 2:14 am

    Unless you can do better, kick down a buck right now for “Feminism = Dictatorship of Crazy Cat Ladies”

    That’s funny right there, I don’t care who U R.

  19. Phil_McG
    October 5th, 2015 @ 4:12 am

    Right? They look like extras from a David Cronenberg body horror movie.

  20. Daniel Freeman
    October 5th, 2015 @ 4:36 am

    I am very mad at my forebears for not spanking their women enough, but it might not be too late.

  21. Daniel Freeman
    October 5th, 2015 @ 4:44 am

    Now now, the one on the right with the studded dog collar has nice tits. Also, the redhead on the left and the brunette next to her are fertile enough that they could find a man if they tried.

  22. Mike G.
    October 5th, 2015 @ 6:05 am

    Against my better judgement, I looked a little bit closer…nah…never been THAT hard up. (Rosie Palm and her five sisters would be safer and better for your sanity, IYKWIM.)

  23. RS
    October 5th, 2015 @ 6:16 am

    Leaving aside for the moment the problem of the ever-expanding definition of “sexual assault,” the idea that looking at various human behaviors and their correlation with adverse consequences is somehow impolite is truly bizarre. I should be able to smoke 3 packs of Marlboros a day and not get COPD or lung cancer; I should be able to hike Yellowstone’s back country eating a tuna sandwich and not be mauled by a Grizzly. I should be able to leave my car unlocked at the mall on December 22 with a thousand dollars worth of gifts in the backseat and not be robbed. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

    But I can’t. Of course, it sucks, but that’s life.

    Which brings us to the fundamental problem. These people have destroyed God and the basis for all transcendent morality, in favor of a materialist universe where only the fittest survive. You cannot have it both ways. Either Darwin reigns surpreme–in which case, better to learn the ways to avoid an horrific fate–or there is a transcendent morality which should govern our actions. It is only in a universe with moral absolutes where a prohibition against “victim blaming” makes any philosophical sense.

  24. Fail Burton
    October 5th, 2015 @ 7:42 am

    Gay feminism is a worthless lump of self-centered shit. The Christian initiative Habitat for Humanity has done more for people in the last month than SJW femmes have done in the last 50 years.

  25. Matthew W
    October 5th, 2015 @ 7:54 am

    “the redhead on the left”
    I sometimes have to doubt the existence of God when I see that he wasted a redhead by letting her be a feminist.

  26. Quartermaster
    October 5th, 2015 @ 8:21 am

    More likely it was walking of the cows.

  27. Quartermaster
    October 5th, 2015 @ 8:23 am

    He’s needed that disclaimer for awhile.

  28. Southern Air Pirate
    October 5th, 2015 @ 8:27 am

    Just remember that it isn’t rape culture if a woman rapes a child.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11911629/Babysitter-spared-jail-after-having-sex-with-boy-aged-11.html

    These sort of things are bing excused by the feminists and not challenged. While men who have consensual contact with a woman who decided that he isn’t the one is being prosecuted. It’s a Topsy wopsy mixed up world this wonderland they have created.

  29. Finrod Felagund
    October 5th, 2015 @ 9:17 am

    Her hair color might come from a box.

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  31. Bob Belvedere
    October 5th, 2015 @ 10:04 am

    Not surprising, for, as Jean Raspail wrote:

    …When everything in society suddenly stops functioning rationally, that’s when the misfits crawl out of the woodwork. And with them their resentments, their utopian visions, their neuroses and psychoses. Mad dogs on the loose. A merry-go-round of feeble minds, free at last of all social fetters….

  32. Bob Belvedere
    October 5th, 2015 @ 10:05 am

    You know, sadly, I bet some of them really are.

  33. Bob Belvedere
    October 5th, 2015 @ 10:06 am

    You left out the Genital Mutilation.

  34. Bob Belvedere
    October 5th, 2015 @ 10:07 am

    Preach, Brother, preach!

  35. Bob Belvedere
    October 5th, 2015 @ 10:09 am

    Everybody sing!…

    If buttercups buzz’d after the bee
    If boats were on land, churches on sea
    If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows
    And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse
    If the mamas sold their babies
    To the Gypsies for half a crown
    If summer were spring
    And the other way ’round
    Then all the world would be upside down!

  36. Steve Skubinna
    October 5th, 2015 @ 12:16 pm

    I hope what we’re seeing now are the death throes of an unsustainable, corrupt, bankrupt philosophy. Granted they are loud, but their actual numbers do not appear to reflect the noise.

  37. Steve Skubinna
    October 5th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm

    They’re certainly not ladies.

  38. theoldsargesays
    October 5th, 2015 @ 1:04 pm

    I look upon these photos and remember fondly laughing at litlle wiggers walking through the mall.
    Bwahhaha!

  39. theoldsargesays
    October 5th, 2015 @ 1:10 pm

    “But I can’t. Of course, it sucks, but that’s life.”

    THIS is quite simply, the key to personal happiness. Have a thick skin, do what you can to change what you can and otherwise say “Oh well, f#ck it” and move on.

    These people doom themselves to a life of misery by choosing to be malcontents. Oh well, f#ck ’em…

  40. trangbang68
    October 5th, 2015 @ 1:22 pm

    “strippers have feelings” I guess that’s true and why they’re out in the car between shows shooting up a bag of heroin to forget about the depravity of being a meat beater’s fantasy day after day.

  41. trangbang68
    October 5th, 2015 @ 1:24 pm

    Is that from “Camp of the Saints” What a powerful quote!

  42. Joe Guelph
    October 5th, 2015 @ 3:09 pm

    According to reports, they were expecting 5,000 attendees, but only got around 250. That’s a good indication they have a lot more noise than numbers.

  43. Daniel Freeman
    October 5th, 2015 @ 3:17 pm

    If so, the chemist deserves his pay.

  44. Quartermaster
    October 5th, 2015 @ 6:58 pm

    You might be sarcastic, but those wymin would be serious.

  45. Quartermaster
    October 5th, 2015 @ 6:59 pm

    That one in the middle front would indecently exposed fully clothed.

  46. Daniel Freeman
    October 5th, 2015 @ 11:31 pm

    I believe that is the eponymous solipsist.

  47. Matthew W
    October 6th, 2015 @ 7:43 am

    Since I can’t prove if the drapes match the carpet, I have to presume it’s God given.

  48. Matthew W
    October 6th, 2015 @ 7:49 am

    Ever see “McLintock?”

    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2362621440/tt0057298?ref_=tt_ov_i

  49. Shawn Smith
    October 6th, 2015 @ 9:38 am

    To my great surprise, two of the women in the header photo are actually kind of physically attractive . . . of course, if actually considering interacting with them, this would be offset by the fact that they’re obviously crazier than a rabid weasel on meth.

  50. Shawn Smith
    October 6th, 2015 @ 9:40 am

    The girl with the (probably dyed) red hair and the girl at the far left are the only ones I’d consider reasonably attractive. Of course, this is offset by the fact that they are almost certainly crazier than a rabid weasel on meth.