Protests

So, this weekend was a pretty busy one for me.  I went to my first protest.  It was my first because I don’t think protests work and I was a little duped.  There’s a difference between raising awareness about a thing and protesting it.  Raising awareness shows that there is a thing, most likely social or medical, that needs attention and you are here to call attention to it and raise money to help its victims.  Protests are things you do when you want to effect change.  The draw back to protesting is that it rarely works.  It only truly can work when there is an actual bottom line.  For example: gay marriage.  People want to make gay marriage legal.  They protest, petition their government leaders and protest some more.  The bottom line is a law was passed in New York State allowing gays to married.  PARTY! (I am in wild support of gay rights)  In the instance of Slutwalk, protesting and chanting to show you’re anti-rape or anti-discrimination because of a style of clothes you wear is considered encouraging to rape.  What are you getting at?  You can’t pass a law that makes people think different and there’s already a law on the books specifically about raping.  As in you are not allowed to rape people.  So what’s the point of taking to the streets?  There isn’t one.  That is why I don’t protest.  Slutwalk would be better served as a 5k raising money to help rape and violence against women victims.  It would go a lot further than stripping down to next to nothing yelling various chants to no end.  And in the gay marriage example, the closed minded didn’t change their minds, the supporters became the change they wanted to see.  Letter writing, running for office, and demanding rights is how you enact change.  In case you were wondering, I don’t go to the gay pride parade either.  I find it offensive to demand equality while wearing a sock on your dick.  Women didn’t demand the right to vote by walking in the streets in their underwear to show how equal they are.  I am pro parade, I’m anti spectacle.

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