this slutwalk shit is ridiculous. I’ll put away my nice guy rhetoric for just a moment and simply say I hope all the people willing to march for this shit are willing to march for labor rights, anti-war protests, medicare, and a bunch of other issues.

moreover, i’m getting tired of the politics in this country becoming obsessed with minor shit that only exists because our society hasn’t sought to reconstruct all institutions to run on demonstrably effective theories that will enable society to be composed of cohesive groups and communities getting along. this shit about drugs, gay marriage, abortion, changing rape laws - all this shit is indicative of the same lack of power we have as citizens. our fight should be a wholesome one to establish an actual democracy where we can decide what the hell we do. fixing or voting on policies effecting only one of those issues subverts the general cause. it makes as much sense as a socialist debating utopic visions with a communist or an anarchist. we all want the same universal freedom. we’ve really allowed our sights to be set short if any of us think that begetting an alternative world for women who want to remain free to be promiscuous (I argue that is the primary nature of this; otherwise there’d be no need for the nomenclature ascribed and the protests would be a wave of feminist protests known as nothing more. Imagine the civil rights movement suddenly being named by incumbent activists as “The Water Fountainers: people who want to drink from clean water fountains!” or the million man march being called “The Interracial dating proponents walk”) will cure the women, or the nation, of a significant amount of its obstinate woes. It’s time to focus on the big picture, the whole change that needs to be relieved.

Lastly, once more on the subject of rape and abuse: I feel I can safely say, as Oscar Wilde did, that these crimes are often the effect of a starvation. He was literal - he spoke of feeding the malnourished and poor - but I’m sure we can transpose his purported principle to match present context. As people, Americans live their lives in constant search of one moment of pleasure that will unify body and soul, establish peaceful occupation of the psyche by the id, ego, and superego; we search for rightful pleasure. And we are starved of this epiphanic moment every day of our lives. Ergo: maladaptive and, at times, violent coping mechanisms and psychoactive drugs meant to relieve the ‘pain’ of being dreadfully normal and without the rightful pleasure. We are significantly starved of attention, sexual activity, food, education, approval, acceptance, company, and the list goes on and fucking on. Would you protest the pejorative connotation of the word ‘idiot’ in order to change the continuous ailing of education in America? No, so why don the word slut for a protest like that will do anything? I am speaking without compendious knowledge of this slutwalk phenom, I know, but I certainly believe with complete and utter resolve that any accomplishment to be won by this nation’s people will be the most easily feasible result of fighting more grand struggles.