The Metropolis

Slut-shaming the anti-slut-shamers

Amil Niazi | Thursday 12 May, 2011 17:24

Read this, if you wish, then come back here and listen to me yell.

Cool attitude, woman, very cool attitude. You know what’s very helpful to the human race? Sentences like this:

The highly educated young women who join SlutWalks are among the safest and most secure in the world. But you’d never know it from the fevered rhetoric.* According to one widely cited scare statistic* cooked up by the American Association of University Women, no fewer than 62 per cent of female students say they’ve been sexually harassed at university – a figure that is credible only if you include every incident of being groped by some 20-year-old drunk

Oh HA HA, BOOM! Young women being groped at school by drunk boys, you’ve just been served! Wait, what? Sorry, I think I jumped the gun on that. Are we not supposed to count incidents where young women are groped by young men against their will as sexual harassment? Because I thought … I mean isn’t that exactly what … OOF, this is hard.

Gotta hand it to crazy face Wente for slut-shaming the anti-slut-shamers, I guess. Love her closing argument that instead of standing up for what they believe in and making their voices heard for not just themselves, but those whose voices can’t be heard, these women should focus on something more important. Because it’s either/or in this world. Choose one issue or die. That’s how it works. I’ve been committed to ending peanut butter and jam apartheid for nearly 20 years now. (I chose too soon I think.) Or whatever. I mean, whatever it is that she deems more important than a worldwide movement that empowers young women.

Okay, keep getting paid lots of money to do your “job,” Margaret!

*LOL

The London Slutwalk takes place at 1pm, 11 June at Trafalgar Square.

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