SlutWalks started as a response to a Police representative in Toronto, Canada announcing that women could reduce their risk of sexual assault by not dressing like "sluts".
Rapists do not select their victims by their appearance; they select victims who are accessible. Most women are raped by someone who is known to the victim. Such warnings deflect the onus and responsibility of male violence from men onto women, Women are expected to constrain their own behaviour in order to control male behaviour - to be responsible for them as if men were animals or children, unable to exercise any responsible choice themselves.
This idea is also insulting to men. Men are not animals, but sentient human beings with an understanding of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. We thank the men who plan to march with us on Saturday and show Auckland that it is possible for men to respect women and support the campaign to end gendered violence. We are building on our offering with new In-depth Engaged Journalism platform - thedig.
Let me pause to acknowledge the enormity of that loss, and the effect it has had on the lives of the families β and also on the lives of those who took part in Operation Overdue. That loss, in and of itself, was huge. But that loss and grief was compounded. It was undeniably worsened by the events that followed. He sells newspapers, as the Dominion-Post showed yet again the other day when it put its revelations about the New Zealand First Foundation on its front page.
The man who set up the Hepatitis Foundation is appalled by the chairperson's extravagant expenses and the time it's taken for an investigation to be made public. However the RMA has not given councils clear enough direction on how to achieve this Follow Scoop on Twitter.
