SlutWalk: critique du mouvement

J'avais déjà souligné l'existence des manifestations de "SlutWalk" en posant la question du féminisme. Keli Goff ne semble pas croire, mais alors pas du tout, aux retombées positives...

"“Slutwalk” protest taking place in New York this past weekend…with my mother. (If you’re looking for something super memorable to do with your mom in the Big Apple might I just say that Broadway shows have nothing on watching a bunch of adults parading around in their underwear in broad daylight in the name of allegedly making a serious political statement.)
Now before the SlutWalk army gets their undergarments in a twist and adds me to their enemies list, let me state for the record that we are on the same side when it comes to the issues. But when it comes to execution in addressing said issues? Not so much.
For those who don’t know SlutWalk (yes that’s the actual name) originated in Toronto when a group of students organized a protest in response to a police constable’s comments that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”
Months later, the first so-called SlutWalk was held.
Like every person with a brain and any person with a heart I find that constable’s comments appalling. Just as I found the acquittal (on the most serious charges) of the so-called NYC “rape-cops” appalling. But we’ve all heard the saying, “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” Well two stupids don’t make a smart, something Slutwalk is a powerful reminder of.
According to CBC News Canada the event’s website at the time read, “Toronto Police have perpetuated the myth and stereotype of the slut, and in doing so have failed us…Barnett [the organizer of the event] said she wants to use the walk to reclaim the word and also demand that victim-shaming change.”
That’s certainly a worthy goal. But here’s a newsflash for Barnett and the organizers of the other SlutWalk protests which have begun to spread throughout the world, you can’t “reclaim” a word defined by a predominant group in power unless you are a part of that group. Just ask all of those people on a mission to “reclaim” the N-word for black Americans or the F-word for gay Americans. (How’s that working out by the way?) As long as white males in power (or anyone else) can use a particular word as a pejorative to denigrate a particular group — and you acknowledge that them doing so will offend you as a member of that group — then you using it is not “reclaiming” it but simply perpetuating it.
My point? Me walking through the streets of New York with a group of black Americans to protest any of the nonsense that comes out of the mouths of David Duke, Don Imus or the like via a “N*****walk” doesn’t do anything to make the world better at all—except for perhaps those in the media, who will get a great story out of it, just as they did this weekend.
Watching the fishnet and bikini clad SlutWalk protesters strut around Union Square Park, I did not think of any of the women participating as “sluts” but I did think of them as pretty silly. Because when it’s all said and done, “Slutwalk” will make very little difference in the lives of sexual assault survivors and those doing work to make their lives better (some of whom I have previously written about.)"

http://blog.cagle.com/2011/10/slutwalk-movement-misses-the-mark/