SlutWalk Toronto

[james_davis_nicoll]

When we first heard about the Toronto Police officer labeling women and people most at risk of sexual assault as “sluts”, we thought about making noise and demanding for more than an apology. We have a constitutional right to a freedom of expression and a freedom of assembly so we’re using it. Putting that into action, we wanted to go right to Toronto Police Service’s front door at 40 College St. with impassioned numbers uniting against these damaging stereotypes. Thus SlutWalk Toronto was born. We are taking our frustration to the streets – literally. Join us for our walk.

Comments

Re: forensic linguistics

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

concept of victimology is controversial -- especially with regard to rape

Sorry, I don't see that. Is it on the same page, or a link off it?

Re: forensic linguistics

[ilya187.livejournal.com]

Indirectly. I meant chapters which start with these paragraphs:

"One of the most controversial sub-topics within the broader topic is victim proneness. The concept of victim proneness is a "highly moralistic way of assigning guilt" to the victim of a crime, also known as victim blaming.[3] One theory, the environmental theory, posits that the location and context of the crime gets the victim of the crime and the perpetrator of that crime together."

"Victim facilitation, another controversial sub-topic, but a more accepted theory than victim blaming, finds its roots in the writings of criminologists Marvin Wolfgang. The choice to use victim facilitation as opposed to “victim blaming” or some other term is that victim facilitation is not blaming the victim, but rather the interactions of the victim that make he/she vulnerable to a crime."

Neither chapter talks about rape explicitely, but rape is one crime where both victim blaming and accusations of victim blaming are most prevalent. Which makes applying victimology to rape controversial in and of itself.