Okay, the title is juvenile. I plead guilty. But really, with this trend the title screams to be written:
Have you heard about the "slut walks" sweeping the globe?
No, they aren't being organized by frat boys. Quite the opposite: Thank the gals in the so-called feminist movement for this one.
Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, Dallas and London have all seen "slut walks" in recent weeks, with 24 more planned around the world. It was all spawned by a Toronto police officer's boneheaded comment at a January campus-safety forum that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized."
Women bear responsibility for their rapes? OK, anger at that notion is plenty righteous. So, the Toronto slut walk was born to demand respect for sexual-assault victims. But the idea that being a "slut" is a bad thing also raised ire -- it's why the Toronto organizers announced on their Web site that they were "tired of being oppressed by slut-shaming; of being judged by our sexuality. [We are] taking the [the word slut] back."
Just what the women of the world have been clamoring for: to call themselves sluts.
This is what feminism had devolved into. Really, what's worse? My title or the story?
