Another T.O. "Gift" to the World

Melanie Phillips comments on the self-indulgence and inanity of "Slut Walks" (a phenomenon that, like Israeli Apartheid Week, got its start right here in Toronto, but that, unfortunately, has now metastasized):

These in-your-face parades started in response to a Canadian police officer who, in a talk about public safety, suggested that if women didn’t want to invite sexual assaults they should avoid dressing like ‘sluts’.

Cue a tsunami of ludicrously over-the-top protests that this officer had effectively blamed women for their own rapes.

Such an inflation of well-meaning, if incautious, advice into a thought-crime against half the human race triggered an international explosion of self-indulgent and absurd posturing.

Dozens of Slut Walks have now taken place, of which the weekend marches around Britain were but the latest example.

These narcissistic stunts are yet another frivolous distraction by those who take advantage of the unprecedented freedoms won by others as they wrap themselves in the mantle of victim...

Why would anyone chose to wear such a covering? It's because in both Canada and the U.K. there is nothing--and I mean nothing--sexier than victimhood.



Update: The British Anti-Sluts--all covered up but far more dangerous.