Feminism: chat
Sure strut
Tal45 · 22/01/2022 09:38
Just read about this on the BBC and thought it was worth posting, it's about a number to call for women walking home alone late at night, someone will talk to them all the way to the door.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-60055916
crispinglovershighkick · 25/01/2022 13:28
Complete fucking bollocks and rightly or wrongly I feel like this is a betrayal of people who are doing real work around women's actual safety.
This libfem rubbish about feelings is always a red flag. Women aren't being stalked, raped, murdered because of how we feel, we feel unsafe because we are unsafe.
We're supposed to be full citizens, we pay tax like everyone else. why are we being fobbed off with this substandard nonsense?
UltraVividLament · 26/01/2022 13:42
@DorothyZbornakIsAQueen
Yep.
The idea is like sticking a tiny small plaster on great big bleeding open wound.
EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 26/01/2022 15:14
@DorothyZbornakIsAQueen
Yes: strut is very male gaze or the Daily Mail claiming that someone is showing off their fabulous abs/body shape etc.
As you say, it's such an utterly bizarre way to describe a woman just trying to make her way home safely with herself and her belongings intact.
aweegc · 26/01/2022 15:28
This also places the responsibility- again - on us to not be attacked. It's like telling women not to wear shirt skirts, not to drink, or not to walk home alone/in the dark. A woman not on Strut who gets attacked will now have to wonder (or be told) that had she used strut, he wouldn't have attacked her.
How about the police start tracking serial perpetrators - the men most likely to attack a woman - and leave us in peace?
EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 26/01/2022 15:42
How about the police start tracking serial perpetrators - the men most likely to attack a woman - and leave us in peace?
Thinking of the poor woman who was stabbed in broad daylight: from the scant details so far, the man who attacked her matched Monckton's criteria, was known to the police and she still couldn't be protected.
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