Why is it a surprise that the people who devised something called "SlutWalk" aren't geniuses?

A couple of years ago a Toronto cop trying to provide some self-protection tips to women after a string of sexual assaults at York University tells them no to "dress like sluts" if they are walking around alone late at night. A poor choice of words to be sure, but the incident became distorted into a shrill "he's blaming the victim!" trope.  An elderly person has a right to walk around the dangerous projects at Jane and Finch with money hanging out of their pockets, but that too is a bad idea, given the realities of the world. There are bad people out there and it is sensible to take measures to protect yourself from them.

The issue should have gone away, but some enterprising, self-promoting lefty women decided a marketing scheme could be spawned of this and the SlutWalk was born, along with its official t-shirts, water bottles and buttons, all sold at a handsome profit.

So for two years now, in Toronto and  other cities, an addle-minded sisterhood march occurs punctuated with a few lamprey-like, soppy, pathetic men who feign sensitivity and compassion while hoping to meet some genuine sluts. As a matter of principle, the gathering of people to denounce sexual violence and the right of women to walk the streets safely is admirable, but is far from a new idea; Take Back The Night walks have been around since the mid 1970's.  

The SlutWalk twist is the angle that women have the right to be sluts, but only with whom they choose. While that right is indisputable (at least in civilized western countries) the idea of taking to the streets to declare it is another manifestation of narcissistic activists self-promoting than any tangible blow for women's rights or safety.

While there's no evidence that the SlutWalks have prevented a single sexual assault or altered anyone's views towards promiscuity, they have garnered some measure of attention for the event's founders and organizers. Unfortunately for them, they have fallen into an easily-set trap that shows that they are not-to bright and hypocritical.

That exposure came about through the publicizing of a Toronto Muslim street preacher's call for legislation forcing women to wear modest clothing in order to, in the opinion of Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana,  prevent their being raped.

While Atangana is not a person of great significance within the Muslim community, when pronouncement became a news item, it more or less forced women's organizations to take a stand. Virtually all those contacted by The Toronto Sun, which first reported the matter, condemned the preposterous proposal.

The notable exception was SlutWalk's founders and organizers, who decided that they were more as outraged with Sun News than they were with Mr. Atagana. Histrionically accusing Sun News of misogyny and the same type of "blame the victim" mentality as the preacher, SlutWalk's spokespeople revealed their vapidity and politically-correct hypocrisy.

Coming from the Marxist school of thought that divides the world into a binary equation of oppressor and oppressed, SlutWalk's organizers are more fearful of being accused of "Islamophobia" than of seriously being pro-women's rights.

Women's rights are routinely assailed within Islam, even in progressive Toronto, yet SlutWalk 's attention seekers are firmly ensconced among the useful idiots of the left who go after the soft, safe targets of government authority while turning a blind eye to the real threats that face women.

So they are more interested in launching shrill attacks against The Sun's columnists like Anthony Furey, who wrote about their hypocrisy. Though what Mr. Atangana proposed is far more egregious and draconian than anything Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said that instigated the Slut Walks, the brand has now become the issue for SlutWalk, and we can now see that the brand stands for nothing.

Rather than actually doing anything tangible to fight for women, SlutWalk is content in showing their supposed moral superiority through tiresome hysteria towards Daniel Tosh, who made a joke about rape. Tosh's joke was in poor taste, but was as genuine an advocacy of rape as a joke about Luka Magnotta is a genuine advocacy of murder and cannibalism.

None of this, of course, is in any way surprising. After all, it would be silly to expect anything but ditziness from people who would create something called a Slut Walk.  The only surprise is that people would expect anything other than that from them.

Instead of slamming Islamist cleric who blames women for getting raped, @SlutWalkTO's Heather Jarvis tells @TheTorontoSun. "F... you Sun"
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) July 17, 2012