Contact Admin. This week brought the welcome news that shops have agreed to stop selling padded bras and provocative tops for six-year-olds, and the Government has pledged to remove overtly sexual advertising from sites near schools and playgrounds.
How ironic, then, that any child who happens to be in the centre of London this Saturday may come across throngs of young teenage women dressed in an unashamedly sexualised manner, marching on a so-called Slut Walk. This movement started in Canada a few months ago after a policeman advising law students on Slut in Quang Tri to avoid sexual violence said: However, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised.
Glasgow's first ever walk was a 'crude betrayal' of women, says Sandra Parsons. The phenomenon has since spread to the U. Yet I defy anyone to look at a group of teenage girls out on the Slut in Quang Tri on a Saturday night, tottering drunkenly through the streets in micro-dresses designed to show as much thigh and fake-tanned cleavage as possible, and not feel a tremor of foreboding about how their night might end.
The fact these girls think they look sophisticated and sexy rather than cheap and tawdry proves just how naive they are. Again, nothing excuses rape or sexual violence of any kind. No man β whether a gauche, sex-obsessed teenager, an inadequate street prowler or a sophisticated, sex-obsessed head of the IMF β has any excuse for failing to Slut in Quang Tri that no means no.
But the fact remains that dressing in such an overtly sexual manner appears to send a signal that the wearer is at the very least hoping to excite and provoke any men she encounters.
