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As 2010 closed, people were pumped and still talking about the horrific
abuse of power against citizens of Canada in Toronto by 20,000 mostly
creepy cops under the leadership of Chief Bill Blair. Legal cases and
ordinary street anecdotes made the government look worse than Hitler's
Nazis.
Michael Sanguinetti, a very ordinary cop,
while speaking in a typical, arrogant manner at a personal security
class at York University in Toronto told the group "women should
avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized."
Michael Sanguinetti aroused every benign
quill in the porcupine's back after months of ill-will toward the Toronto
Police Services had begun to calm them.
For real, this was a poke in the eye
with a hot needle.
There are many consequences. Many! The TPS is now a vile thing to be
feared. It is also incompetent, money-hungry, consumed in power
struggles and insensitive to the citizens/taxpayers who pay their
salaries. Those are the perceptions and likely the reality.
I am Katie. I am an ecofeminist and a specialist in
women's studies. I am the founder of a number of things female. I
connect with many women the world over. Why are so many of them rape
survivors?
Why?
My American white friends' rape stories are their business
and seem horrible but I have met people who fought
their way out of war-ravaged countries where you get raped two and three
times a day by another few strangers with guns.
Rape by the dirty, bloodied soldiers and other killers means
it is about things they can't do with consenting friends
or partners like urinating and defecating improperly; violent beatings;
and painful intrusions.
Victims describe militia and soldiers grunting in their face; bad
breath; horrible pains; unimaginable invasion; sticky
pinching and tearing in a dry bleeding worn out socket of their body;
horror; trauma; silent screaming or just screaming; death inside; and ...
Yeah. The youngest and the prettiest ones get it worst. "Women
should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." is
how this cop said it. Here is the irony. We wail but he speaks the truth
in a perverted way: don't dress like a woman but appear to be a man and
you might be OK. It shouldn't be that way but it is that way. Ask
Cambodians, Congolese, Afghani women, Pakistani woman. And yes, check
out Somalia where if you are a woman, you better hide.
Hide your pretty girls is what they say
in Somalia.
A woman I read about was in such a place. Her little sister,
they said, was "the pretty one". She
died as the "soldiers" fought among themselves to be in her next. They killed her
in the squabble. She, torn to pieces like an animal attacked by hungry
wolves, frail, young and so pretty, didn't have a chance.
It's a horrible story of a kid's desperation in a
nothing-to-lose survival bid that arose when confronted by the blooming
obvious: kill or be killed. She was only 13. A child woman.
To be female is to be in danger in some
parts of the world?
A women I have spoken with face-to-face, when she was a child,
ignited by angry outrage, fueled by hell's fire, she led an escape of broken kids
from a place in Cambodia, an egress that had a vile taste of
blood. She was then 13. Some of those raping animal pimps were sent to
the grim reaper after killing this woman's sister.
Years later my friend is physically a woman, facing her
demons. She must still avenge her baby sister but she will still die with her broken heart.
Knowing that, breaks my heart. Why do humans behave this way.
"I have a better idea. Instead of dressing as sluts
let's put on our business suits and run for office."
A wilful response to wrong is how Slut Walk started in Toronto. It
then distorted and wound its way around the world.
Slut walk's proliferation was fast and is as all such things that
go viral, somewhat distorted and twisted away from origin. I have a
better idea. Instead of dressing as sluts let's put on our business
suits and run for office.
I ask you to think about that dead little girl;
somebody's darling sister; and somebody's baby girl. Not that she
isn't the most important little soul in the universe, but there are
millions of pretty little souls who went the same horrible way. India alone is missing 50 million little ones. Please think
about what they say around the world about "hide your pretty girls".
What kind of a world is that?
Yes, that cop
Michael Sanguinetti said 'hide your pretty girls' in his own
way in Toronto and I lost it!
Many others did.
When you were little your mother and all your family made a big deal of
looking pretty. Are we not supposed to be pretty? But if we are
pretty... we are fair game? Our desire for attention is not a license
for aggression.
It really hurts to hear the daily news. I really feel it. Truth is,
every misogynist thinks pretty much the same way as the Toronto cop does. There are a lot
of misogynists out there: misogynists like Rush
Limbaugh.
Do you see that Rush Limbaugh's assertion that "Slutwalk
is only about ugly, fat women seeking attention" is actually another
way of saying "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not
to be victimized" or
"hide your pretty girls", just
like they say
all over the world.
Are you
ready for a solution to the rape epidemic?
Are you ready for change?
I assure you, before this changes, the patriarchy must
die.
Before this changes, wars must end.
Before this changes, the value of human life needs a
new esteem.
Before this changes, men and women must find their
equality and eventually women must take over the reins of world power and
bring the planet to a more nurturing and nourishing posture. Most men
can't do it without a woman at the helm.
Before this changes, every election must have more
women candidates than men.
Are you with me?
[Katie Alsop]
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