On the 24th of January 2011, Michael Sanguinetti was at Osgoode Hill Law School in Toronto to give a talk to students on ways to protect themselves against sexual assault. "I've been told I'm not supposed to say this" Sanguinetti begun. He should have stopped there. He didn't.
Google Michael Sanguinetti and you will find little on his life story. His was a fairly innocuous existence as far as most of the world was concerned. But one sentence changed all that. One sentence set a worldwide movement in motion that began with 1500 participants in Toronto on the 3rd of April and has reached from Canada to cities all over North and Central America, Europe, Australia, Asia and eventually all the way to South Africa. After successful marches through Cape Town and Durban on the 20th of August, more are being planned in South Africa for the coming months. And all because an "inexperienced" Canadian policeman told a small group of students that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised".
The SlutWalk Sensation
Although Sanguinetti's comments will always be held up as the catalyst for SlutWalk, they seem to have merely been the "tipping point" of an issue that had been coming to a head for some time. As Gillian Schutte wrote, "Women have had enough of being told that they are the ones to blame – of being taught to police themselves instead of men being taught not to rape – of being labelled as sluts as if this label justifies their mistreatment."
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