SlutWalk Sign Ideas

bad-dominicana:

How do you not notice
All the little black and brown girls
Who are known to be the *roughest*
Live the roughest lives
Go missing and murdered and raped and battered
The most too
And you want our claws to retract?

(via hardhatpartycat)

You cannot TAME me.

You may not SHAME me.

“Yes means fuck me, no means fuck you.”

Probably been submitted before. But it’s my favorite. -taylermaybe

- Actually I’d like to critique this one, hope it doesn’t bother you. I’ve been thinking about this a little lately.

I’d like to avoid the “No means bad things for you, hahaha!” implications. No should always be as respectful as necessary. No should just mean no, it shouldn’t exist to hurt anyone’s feelings, and we shouldn’t imply that it is meant to be hurtful.

A lot of people get it into their heads that saying “no” at all is impolite, and a lot of people’s egos won’t permit “no” because of the idea that we use it to get back at them. We need to try to evolve past the immaturity that says “But you can’t say no, I deserve this, why are you so meeeeaaan!!??”

I teach a self defense class, and we had a student recently who kept insisting that she shouldn’t say no to guys who asked her to dance or to accept drinks because she doesn’t want to hurt their feelings. She couldn’t move beyond this idea that it was her job to take care of the feelings of a stranger at a bar. It’s really just her job to say no when she wants to enforce her own interests. That’s what no is - “I don’t want that thing you offered me.” It should have nothing to do with the person - even if maybe you’re saying no because you don’t like the person and have some kind of problem with them. It’s still because *you* don’t like them, not because *they* have any say or bearing.

I think we need to detach “no” from the idea of “it’s because you have something wrong with you and if you just changed that maybe it would be yes.” The idea that “no” means “fuck you” could mean that there is a person who deserves that “fuck you” and a person who doesn’t, and in reality we’ll end up with someone who just doesn’t want to dance being harassed by another person who keeps saying “But I’m so nice, why don’t you want to dance with me? Why would you want to say ‘fuck you’ to me when I clearly don’t deserve that?” That kind of ego perpetuates from the way we use “no” (or don’t use it - a lot of women (and some men) find it hard to say no because of social programming that aims to make them more compliant, which creates more people who can’t handle no, in a vicious cycle). Taking proper control of the use of “no” as well as “yes” is going to fix all of that.

So I think I would stay away from this particular slogan on that grounds. But I would love to see more using that “yes”, show me what you can come up with! 

My skirt, your problem

Sign I made for Slutwalk Sydney with @caitlin_Welsh and @Tumbletwig

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SLUTS WORLDWIDE UNITE!!!

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U don’t call me fuckin’ whore!

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‘Slut’s unite and demonstrate!

A shaky “No” is still NO.

A stuttered “No” is still NO.

A slurred “No” is still NO.

A hesitant “No” is still NO.