SlutWalk Oporto

SLUT WALK

What is it?

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It is a movement initiated the 3 of April 2011, in Toronto, Canada, in return to a policeman that said in a lecture at the university that women should avoid dressing as prostitutes not to be become victims of rape, thus defending the origin of violence of men on women as a behaviour originating from women, that must be fought in women, stimulating puritanism that is nothing else than the cover of everybody’s sexual repression.

The Sluts’ march is a protest against the idea that women “were asking for it” because they went out in the street wearing low necks or mini-skirts or any other type of provocative clothes or had a “freer” behaviour like drinking or adopting other behaviours – that in any way damage the dignity of the masculine.

It is a protest against the (so often not yet) overcome morals that women are the culprits of the sexual aggressions they suffer, because they’re only sexual objects to men, and when they say YES they are “easy women” and when they say NO “they are provoking”.

It is a protest against not consented sex, even when it’s not considered to be violent;
against the sentences that determine the rehabilitation of groups of adolescents that raped because the victim was no longer a virgin; against the husband who rapes his wife and is not sent to trial… because after all… she is required to; against the aggressor who rapes the prostitute and is not sent to trial because she sells sexual services!

It is a protest against the idea that when women say YES they want to say YES, and when they say DON’T they want to say YES all the same.

It is a protest to reclaim the night as space of fun, sociability among friends, without the fear of returning back home or of walking alone in the street.

If a man rapes us, he doesn’t rape our clothes… he rapes our self, our voice and our body!

Historically the term “slut” carries an extremely negative connotation, whose weight falls back entirely on women, being a serious accusation on their reputation. The intention behind the word is always to stain.

The objective of the march is to re-signify the term “slut”, taking it to ourselves and showing that in a “macho” society we all are sluts.

In the sw site they state: “We are tired of being oppressed by the shame, of being judged for our sexuality, and of feeling insecure. Taking the lead of our sexual life does not mean that we are opening ourselves up for an expectance of violence, independently if we have sex for pleasure or as work. Nobody should say that if I like sex, I am opening a precedent for a possible sexual aggression.”

The slut union goes out in the street… because sluts we all are!