NYC ‘SlutWalk’ Protests Raise Rape Awareness
New York City has been inundated with protests recently. Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining strength.Union pilots showed up on Wall Street to protest a hasty merger between United and Continental airlines. And yesterday over a thousand feminists held a scantily-clad rally, which they called SlutWalk, to protest blaming the victims of sexual assault after NYPD police warned women not to wear clothes that might make them more prone to being raped.
The event drew a diverse crowd of mostly-female protestors, some who were wearing very little and carrying (somewhat) clever signs. Most were more than willing to vent their frustrations about victim-blaming and slut-shaming.
The march took off down Broadway at around 12:30 and chants of “I’m no slut, I’m no hoe/Whatever you call me, no means no!” kept up their momentum for the entirety of the more-