Slutwalk

== Transcript ==
The Slutwalk, an event which happened over the weekend in Toronto that has also inspired other events throughout the country, is a "protest" march of sorts that came about when a cop visited York University in Toronto after a string of sexual assaults to help women take precautions. While there, he said something like "not dressing like a slut will lessen the chances of being raped." Something to that effect, I don't know, I wasn't there and I'm not gonna take anyone's word on what exactly he said, but he used the word "slut," that's the important part. This got the young ladies all up in arms because the comment blames them for being the victims, and for now I'll say that's fair. I mean, if I got robbed, I don't want people blaming me, however, if I left my door unlocked, posted a note on Facebook that I was gonna be gone for several hours, and left a few backpacks laying in the middle of the floor, well I think I got a share on a little of the blame when half my shit is gone. As you might've guessed, I have some problems with how people, men or women, perceive what this cop said as being completely wrong. First of all, was anyone doing at a sexual assault prevention training seminar in the first place if they didn't wanna be told how they, as women, should go about doing things to minimize the chances of them being assaulted? Did they expect the officer to come out and say, "OK, look, I've talked with all the men in the world and we've decided, enough's enough. No more raping. We're sorry that some of us have been such animals." And before I go any further, I don't think rape is a woman's fault, it's a heinous crime and it shouldn't happen. However, think of it this way: you can't get angry when you go to a weight loss seminar and they say, "It'd be a good idea to stop jamming whole Twinkies in your mouth until the box is empty, and maybe you should get some exercise once in a while." Clearly the cop was gonna pin some of the blame on women for either the way they dress, not locking their dorm rooms at night in cases where guys were coming in and taking advantage of them while they sleep, walking alone in dark places at night, or some other behavior that could possibly prevent the situation of being force-fed cock. 
Now let's talk about some of the other things said by the organizers of the Slutwalk to disprove what Toronto's finest had to say. Number 1: Rape isn't about sex, it's about power. Now this is something spouted from a textbook from 1955 and is as ignorant a statement as, "All girls who dress like sluts are asking to get fucked." Here's my problem with that archaic comment. A drunk college guy isn't thinking, "I can't wait to prove my dominance over the female species by having sex with them!" They're thinking, "I'm drunk, that chick is hot, I wanna fuck her silly and cum buckets in her hair!" To some men, rape is about getting laid by any means necessary because they wanna empty the contents of their balls into a girl. Sex is the first thought on their mind. 
Number 2: Girls should be able to dress however they want without being harassed. You're absolutely, 100% right. They should. I'm not gonna question that at all, I'm an asshole, I'm not a fucking asshole. However, these are the same people that say things like "It's my right away, I'm gonna walk across the street! I don't care who's coming!" Then they wonder what happened when they weren't cautious enough, and end up being raped by the front bumper of an SUV in the middle of the road. You're right -- you shouldn't have to worry about it, but guess what? People run red lights, people force themselves onto women. Not sure if you noticed this, but laws only stop the honest people from committing crimes. 
Number 3: Girls don't dress this way to be sluts, they dress this way to feel good about themselves. Here's the thing. Why do women wear skirts up to their twats, and shirts that leave about as much to the imagination as a Michael Bay movie? To feel good about themselves? OK, and why is it that they feel good about themselves? Because society and popular media has said, "If you dress like this, people will find you attractive." What people? Men. You're not wearing outfits like that because you want men to know you're intelligent and well read, you're wearing cause of the power you feel you have over them, the ability to draw their attention to you. Again, 100% right, this is not a free pass for a finger fucking on the dance floor or a roofie martini. But I'm sorry to say, we don't live in a land of lollipops and sunshine shitting unicorns. If you stick your hand in a bear cage, there's a good chance you're gonna be pulling back a stump. If you're going to go to a dark, packed nightclub dressed in a way that will attract the attention of men, especially the attention of douchebag date rapists, well, guess what a possible outcome could be? Is it right? No, but it happens, and what the cop was trying to say in a crass and unpolitically correct way, was that precautions can be taken. I'm gonna bet that statistically, girls who wear jeans or tights or pants to a bar aren't getting a vagina full of knuckles. 
Again, you're right, no one has the right to rape or sexually assault anyone, and no one asks to be raped, except for people in a rape fantasy, but no one should be murdered, robbed, assaulted, hit by a drunk driver, or any number of bad things that can happen to a person in life. Guess what though? They still happen, and gathering a group to march around a metropolitan area in skirts and tube tops isn't gonna stop it.