Slutwalk NYC

I hate to beat a dead horse, particularly one so ridiculous and crass...but why oh why can't the Slutwalk die? I realize some may suggest that stupid bloggers like Kim giving it continued attention may be part of the problem but, sadly, with or without my commentary, it continues to thrive. Some feminists are heralding Slutwalk as the best and biggest thing to happen in feminism in some time, "The future of feminism....A rebellion against sexual standards!" A pathetic and ridiculous display of privileged entitled women with too much time and not enough sense! O.K., I admit....that last bit was mine.

I was of the opinion and hope that Slutwalk, overwhelmed by a wave of ridicule, mockery and scorn, would be quickly swept under the rug and recognized as the embarrassment that it is. Instead, it seems that feminists have finally found a way to connect with the new tide of young women. I guess, in retrospect, I'm not all that surprised by the "movements" popularity. They've also found a way to capture the media and the general public's attention. It's like the Jerry Springer of protests...absolutely appalling and pathetic....but you just can't help but watch.

Of course, feminists view the whole thing in their typical myopic fashion.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12040/slutwalk_nyc_an_important_success_corsets_and_all

"I did see a few women wearing corsets at SlutWalk. They were easy to find—you just had to look for the camera crews—but there weren’t many. More women went topless. This, I soon realized, was brilliant; the press cameras had to stay away from them. The men on the sidewalk were less inhibited; they gathered on stoops, at intersections, or in their fire escapes, holding out phone cameras, rapt with predatory fascination."

Oy vey. So women are strolling down public streets TOPLESS but it's the men who are uninhibited? What the heck were those disgusting leering men thinking? They should have locked themselves away in closets or something so they wouldn't have been able to see the women. If they had any decency at all they would have gouged out their very eyes instead of accosting these poor women with their stares. Women have every right to parade topless through downtown New York City in the middle of the day but how dare men be there and look!

That Slutwalk has been called the "next global feminist movement" should clue feminists in to just how ridiculous their movement has become. I've watched feminism becoming increasingly desperate in it's bid to maintain a semblance of legitimacy for some time now...and here we are. Feminists are overjoyed that they're getting so much attention and completely clueless as to how stupid they look. Not that this should come as a surprise (see Vagina Monologues...another fine example of feminist protest).

Honestly, as one who quantifies herself as anti feminist, I suppose I should cheer on the Slutwalkers. I say "should" because, quite frankly, it's embarrassing. I would much prefer to see feminism die out because a majority of women stood up and denounced it for the hate movement that it is. Instead, feminists themselves have made it almost unnecessary to undermine feminism...as they're doing such a bang up job all on their own. Every overblown, ridiculous claim they make concerning rape, abuse, the oppression of women...does more to invalidate their movement then any anti feminist such as myself could ever do. They've made themselves ridiculous and are well on their way to losing all legitimacy. Of course, as I've stated before, the problem anymore isn't so much feminism...as we see from our Slutwalkers, it's becoming little more than a crude and tasteless joke. The problem is the mess it's left in it's wake.