I thought this article would be very relevant since we just read about slutwalks in our book “Some Men”
In this recent article it talks about how hundreds of people gathered the streets of Jerusalem in protest of the prevalence of sexual violence in Israel and around the world. Just like in our book “Some Men” the article states that slutwalks started in 2011 when a Canadian policeman stated “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized.” So Toronto activists organized the first slutwalk on April 3, 2011 in reaction to the policeman’s statement.
The first slutwalk in Israel took place in Tel Aviv in 2012 and has since continued. Event organizers for the event in Jerusalem explained that the goal of the event was to protest the idea that “women bring rape and sexual violence upon themselves by acting or dressing a certain way.” One of the organizers stated that “We are here to protest the norm in which women cannot feel safe in the public area” referring to what protesters call victim shaming. Obviously this a global problem that is on the rise so my question is how far do you think protesters will have to go to get their voice heard? Not just in Jerusalem or Canada but across the world?
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/1.658752