Caitlin Moran on Slutwalk
I’m not sure about SlutWalk, but Caitlin Moran in The Times today has a thoughtful piece that should be read by everyone.
She says that it is movement that has captured the anger in young women across the world.
I would agree, but it’s not just young women that are angry. Look at the protests in Spain by young men and women about the lack of jobs and as Caitlin points out, the protests across the Arab world and especially Tunisia.
And pensioners and others are angry at how their savings have been ruined by the bankers!
We will see more protests in the current months, unless governments take radical decisions to improve the lot of everyone.
To return to SlutWalk, I’ve always felt that anybody is entitled to wear what they want and not what someone tells them to. As an example I’m not struck on facial piercings, as they give me the creeps, but if someone wants them, then that is their affair!
Obviously what people wear should not be illegal or offensive.
So a T-shirt praising nuclear power or the building of waste incinerators would be acceptable, but one praising the works of Adolf Hitler would not be.
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