{"id":2990,"date":"2011-06-23T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2011-06-23T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:49:58","slug":"slut-walk-ill-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Slut walk? I’ll watch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chrisopher Orlet begins his column at the American Spectator, <\/em>"Feminist Foolery<\/a>," with an interesting observation about the slut walk<\/a> phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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In the interest of clarity, a SlutWalk — the latest gambit in the increasingly raunchy women's movement — is when college gals dress up like tramps in order to protest something no one believes anyway (at least no one who isn't a complete Neanderthal), i.e.,<\/em> that suggestively dressed women deserve to be sexually harassed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So far, Orlet is on the map in terms of reasonable positions to take: i) sex-awareness movements needn't be so explicit, and ii) the revealing clothing message is old news.<\/span>  That's not to say I think he's right, but these aren't ridiculous views, and it does seem to show he's been paying attention (and perhaps, that he's learned a lesson).  Oh, and then he follows it up with:<\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, SlutWalks are quite popular on college campuses. Especially with frat boys who get to ogle scantily clad young women sashaying round the quadrangle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, maybe he doesn't really understand, and all those reasonable views<\/span> were held on accident.  Not surprising, really, given that he recently argued<\/a> that he could be more civil in argument, if that might make it more likely that he could get lucky.  Yeah, the justification for an argumentative norm is that it is conducive of coitus (though I think it was a joke). And here's the evidence that he doesn't get the point about sexual harrasment and rape. He thinks there's a double standard being used everywhere else in the slutwalkers' lives:<\/p>\n

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… [D]espite what the SlutWalkers preach, we are<\/em> judged by what we wear<\/strong> (and how we talk, and how we behave, even how we chew gum) and no number of skanky protests is going to change that. <\/span> Just try showing up for a job interview dressed like Amy Winehouse or Courtney Love and see how far that gets you. I'm willing to bet my last dollar that these same SlutWalkers, when they interview job seekers or size up potential dates, judge people by what they wear<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fine, but, you know, there's a difference between judging people by what they wear and groping and raping them on the basis of that.  In the interest of clarity, it seems we must state again that it was that last thing that the protests were about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrisopher Orlet begins his column at the American Spectator, "Feminist Foolery," with an interesting observation about the slut walk phenomenon. In the interest of clarity, a SlutWalk — the latest gambit in the increasingly raunchy women's movement — is when college gals dress up like tramps in order to protest something no one believes anyway … Continue reading Slut walk? I’ll watch!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1109,1108,141],"tags":[914,827,1137,1136],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","category-argument-from-double-standards","category-argument-from-inconsistency","category-specious-comparisons","tag-christopher-orlet","tag-feminism","tag-neanderthals","tag-slut-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}