Slut Walk: Dumbed-Down Feminism and the Politics of Mindless Protest Chic

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Today at 11 a.m., angry women — perhaps dozens of them — will gather in Washington for “SlutWalk DC,” a fundamentally pointless exercise in public stupidity that will accomplish nothing except to give the participants a chance to say they’ve done something.

Like many other such left-wing protests, SlutWalk DC is basically about political tribalism, signifying membership, parading around one’s inchoate grievances, venting one’s anger about personal or collective victimhood. Notice how the women above are demonstrating against a non-existent opposition, i.e., The Pro-Rape Movement.

Is anyone in favor of rape? Can we get a show of hands of those who think rape should be legalized? Anyone? No, of course not.

Personally, I think rape should be punishable by death in some cases, but I’m willing to bet that nearly all the SlutWalk DC marchers are liberals who are against the death penalty, even for murder.

Thus, the feminist rhetoric is basically a way for women to ju-jitsu the issue that lost Michael Dukakis the 1988 presidential election, promoting the (entirely false) idea that rape is somehow the fault of those sexist Republican right-wingers, rather than actually doing anything about arresting rapists and putting them in prison.

What is this poster about? Can anyone read this and derive from it a policy proposal, some sort of reform agenda? Anything?

No, of course not. What this poster is saying is, “I had a crappy childhood” (no would would disagree) “I hate my mother” (can’t say that we blame you) and “Don’t criticize whatever kind of sex I’m having now” (of course, we wouldn’t even think about your “sexuality,” if you weren’t advertising it on your protest poster).

Questioning the rhetoric of these left-wing protests, as if the protesters are intelligent adults who might be expected to make a coherent argument, is not allowed. You may recall the gibbering nonsensical rage emitted by the Occupy movement, which was never actually about anything except (a) rich people have a lot of money, and (b) smelly hippies camping out in a city park.

Seriously, that was their entire agenda: “Let’s go camping, yell about how much we hate rich people, try to make such nuisances of ourselves that the cops will be forced to arrest us, and also — while we’re at it — sexually assault any women stupid enough to join us.”

Why didn’t the “SlutWalk” organizers protest against the Occupy movement? Is it unfair to suspect that many of the rapes these women are so angry about actually occurred inside Occupy tents?

OK, that sarcasm probably crossed some kind of line, and even my sexist Republican readers might be offended. But perhaps you see my point. If we were to check the voter registration of convicted rapists, is there anyone — anyone — who doubts that Democrat men commit the majority of rapes in America? It’s not just elected Democrats like Bob Filner, but the kind of men who vote for Bob Filner, who are actually the Pro-Rape Movement. If liberal women seem especially angry about rape, isn’t it because liberal women hang around liberal men, and most liberal men are selfish amoral creeps?

Let’s face it: Republicans are the ones who want to lock up rapists. Democrats are the ones who see criminals as victims of an oppressive and unjust capitalist system. And instead of cracking down on actual rapists, the liberal Democrat women are instead angry because some people still use a simple word to describe the kind of degenerate promiscuity that liberal Democrat women consider normal.

Why is it — really, I want you to think hard about this — why is it that merely talking sarcastically about feminism seems to anger feminists more than rape itself? Speaking critically of wretched egalitarian radicalism is not a crime, you know, and if liberal women want to turn a word like “slut” into a political weapon, how can they say it’s unfair for their opponents to turn that weapon against them?

If you’re going to hold up a sign that says “PROUD SLUT,” you can’t object when I say, yeah, like all Democrat women.

Never mind my jokes, however, let’s talk about the real joke — the official manifesto of SlutWalk DC 2013:

SlutWalk DC Demands!

  1. All victims of sexual assault deserve dignified treatment and access to medical care regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical ability, mental illness, immigration status, incarceration status, physical appearance or involvement in sex work. We demand that all DC-area hospitals provide access to rape kits and train staff to administer rape kits to all victims of assault.
  2. All people have a right to control their own bodies and personal space. To have autonomy of our own bodies and sexual liberation, DC residents must have access to affordable reproductive health care services including abortions. Reproductive health care should be prioritized in the budget and we therefore oppose any and all budget cuts that restrict these services, such as the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act that bans the District from using its own money to fund abortions for low-income women.
  3. We oppose sexual assault in all work places.
  4. We oppose all efforts of public figures (including politicians, law enforcement and military officers) to belittle and joke about incidents of rape and sexual assault in order to generate and maintain a culture in which sexism is accepted rather than taken seriously.
  5. We call for an end to the deportation of undocumented people who report sexual assault, rape and domestic violence. All people must have the ability to report sexual violence and rape and to receive a medical care without fear of deportation.
  6. The police must be held accountable to the communities they serve to the fullest extent. We call for the immediate removal and arrest of any police officer that misuses their power and authority position to abuse and assault people. We demand that the victims of police assault receive justice. We demand full equality and inclusion for transgender people, including complete access to healthcare, education and employment.
  7. We demand an end to transphobia.  We demand an end to violence committed against members of the transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming community.  We demand justice for Tyli’a Mack, LeShai McClean, and other victims of gender-motivated hate crimes.
  8. We also demand an end to the stereotyping of trans women as sex workers, especially low income trans women and trans women of color.  We call for an end to the constant police intimidation and harassment of trans women that follows this stereotype.

Do you see how they work into their agenda certain liberal issues — including abortion and amnesty for “undocumented” immigrants — that might seem debatable or controversial, if it didn’t come wrapped up in all this angry rhetoric about sexual assault, so that if you diagree with them, you’re accused of being pro-rape?

Explain to me again why I should speak respectfully about women who employs such dishonest propaganda tactics.

They’re not just sluts. They’re lying sluts.

Which is to say, they’re typical Democrat women.

 

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  4. In general, I don’t think it’s a good idea to have the death penalty for rape, because then it gives rapists encouragement to kill their victim, since the punishment won’t get any worse and they permanently silence the prime witness.

  6. I like the stupid “signs not to rape” lists that these groups put out. Because they totally miss the point, the rapist doesn’t give a damn about any of that crap. While it is true, in a perfect world, that a woman should be able to go down any dark alley she chooses dressed as she chooses with the expectation of not being being raped but so should anyone expect to go down the same alley and not be robbed or murdered. But since we don’t live in that world it is usually best not to get yourself into situations where something bad can happen to you.

  7. Hmm . Walking down a dark alley has ‘Never’ been a good idea , woman or man !! I do feel sorry for these chicks . I can’t call them women cause they haven’t lived up to it . Being a woman takes a talent these chicks don’t have . Question: Who would want to rape them ?

  8. Which party is it that has an accused rapist as its elder statesman?

    To have autonomy of our own bodies and sexual liberation, DC residents must have access to affordable reproductive health care services including abortions.

    Someone needs “autonomy” explained to them.

  10. “…some people still use a simple word to describe the degenerate promiscuity liberal… women consider normal.” Thank you so much for putting that into words for me. I’ve been trying to articulate that for years. RSM for President in ’16!

  11. Why do I keep thinking of a Cheap Trick song?

    Mommy told me.
    Yes, she told me
    I’d me girls like you.
    She also told me
    Stay away, you never know
    What you’ll catch.

  12. Another blatant lie is the implication that many of these services and laws do not exist. They do. Obamacare, for example, purports to take care of all their abortion/contraception demand. Liberals are never happy.

  13. Our esteemed host wrote:

    the liberal Democrat women are instead angry because some people still use a simple word to describe the kind of degenerate promiscuity that liberal Democrat women consider normal empowering and feminist-validating.

    FTFY.

    However, as the father of two daughters who were in high school not that long ago, I can tell you that even now that simple word is used by high school girls to describe other high school girls. Don’t ever think that the word “reputation” doesn’t still have the same meaning today that it did forty years ago.

  16. Really a fascinating twist of logic with these people. Their thesis appears to be,”just because I openly celebrate a promiscuous lifestyle and indeed display all of the accoutrements of same, does not give you the right to assume I am promiscuous.” What’s also fascinating is that while denying a moral component to their own sexual expression, they desire to hide in morality’s skirts (no pun intended) when their own behaviors cause consequences they do not like.

  17. Perhaps, I’m thinking too much, but it seems the disconnect between most of us and the protesters in this situation is due to definitional confusion. As RSM mentioned, “Who’s ‘Pro-Rape?'” We are flummoxed because we define rape as a crime of power, not of sex, designed to steal the innocence of the victim and murder her spirit. Of course, that is included in the protesters’ definition, but they undoubtedly add additional behaviors worthy of sanction. These additional behaviors result from the blurring if not elimination of the classic rules of courtship. We now live in a society where the casual “hook-up” is ubiquitous. It would seem that it is even expected. Yet, if someone changes her mind in flagrante, that becomes proscribed behavior. Of course, such is every human’s prerogative, but having changed the rules in medias res is problematic.

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