Originally posted at http://minneapolitanmademoiselle.blogspot.com/
For more information about the SlutWalk movement, check out this website. Also, check out SlutWalk Minneapolis on Facebook and tumblr.
The basic idea behind this now international movement is to protest the victim-blaming that commonly occurs when someone is sexually assaulted. In the case of SlutWalk, it's blaming the victim because what they are wearing = they're a slut and they somehow deserve what happened to them. Statements like "They deserved it because..." or "If they didn't (insert behavior here) they would not have been assaulted..." place responsibility for the assault on the victim or their behavior instead of on the perpetrator, where it rightly belongs. SlutWalk is coming to Minneapolis on October 1, 2011 and I am super excited! Given the amount of controversy that inevitably arises with events such as SlutWalk, I wanted to share the reasoning behind my decision to walk with my fellow Minneapolitans (and others) in support of this cause.
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