Thursday, May 19, 2011

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These fuck-me-boots are made for walking (An article by Passion Pop Pistol's )

"The recent wave of controversially/cleverly titled 'SlutWalk', anti-rape, anti victim-blame protests have, predictably, proved once again that the ingrained societal opinion is that the way women dress is about communicating something to men.

Even academics are jumping on this train of thought, Gail Dines told the Sydney Morning herald, "by having a slutwalk, you have turned the focus on to what women are wearing. The men who are responding to this message are not getting the irony at all."

Which may well be because, aside from using a hateful word in a non hateful context, there is very little irony. This protest, though performative, is literal. What SlutWalk says is this: There is no garment I can wear (or not wear) which would invite you to harass, belittle, patronize, sexualize or rape me."

Read the rest of Passion Pop Pistol's article here.

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 20, 2011 at 1:18 AM

    Hi. I'm sure your intentions are good, but the way you've "reblogged" this other blogger's writing makes it look like it's your own writing, and doesn't make enough effort to identify and give proper credit to the author.

    May I suggest you present the quoted text more obviously as a quote (i.e. framing the text in quotation marks, using a blockquote format and/or adding an introduction explaining where the quote's from).

    I'd also suggest changing the ambiguous and cursory "The rest of the article . com" link to something that explicitly credits the author, such as: "Read the rest of Passion Pop Pistol's article here."

    Again, I'm sure your intentions are good—you probably just like the article and want more people to read it. However, as content farm sites spring up all over the internet (stealing bloggers' content, republishing it via RSS feed, and then making money off ads posted alongside) it's increasingly important to give authors their due credit.

    As it stands, this looks, at first glance, like plagiarism. I'm sure that's not what you would want!

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  2. Benjamin John SmithMay 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM

    Haha "Anon" yeah right.

    Ill fix it up now, cheers mate =)

    Im glad you relised its not my intention, im just very very lazy when it comes to this blogging bull shit.

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