Sydney `SlutWalk` sends ‘dress no invitation for sexual assault’ message
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Melbourne: Even as rain deterred plans of thousands of women who were to turn up at Sydney’s SlutWalk protest, those who did make it managed to make the event a powerful one.
Despite the low turnout, the message was loud and clear: women`s dress is not an invitation for sexual assault.
Most of the 200-odd people who gathered at Town Hall were rugged up for the chilly weather.
Some women were scantily clad and many men in attendance were dressed in women`s clothes.
They carried signs with the slogans: “Proud and happy slut”, “Blame rapists not boobs” and one woman had written on her breasts: “Can`t touch these without consent”.
SlutWalk organiser Samadhi Arktoi briefed the crowd before leading the protest through the CBD.
“We`re here today to declare that slut-shaming and victim-blaming have to stop,” a daily quoted Arktoi as saying in his speech.
“We`re here because we know that whatever the circumstances, sexual assault is never the fault of the victim.”
The march ended with a number of people giving speeches impassioned from their personal experiences of sexual assault.(ANI)
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