When a Canadian police offer declared that women could avoid sexual assault if they dressed less provocatively, females everywhere saw red. And then they did something about it. They launched Slutwalk.
They chanted “Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes, and no means no” as they descended upon the Toronto police headquarters, dressed as … well … sluts.
The protest was a way of reclaiming the word and a women’s right to dress however she pleased. It also looked to raised awareness of the problems in Canada’s justice system, a system which blames the victim of sexual assault rather than the perpetrator.
