Sady Doyle has a theory as to why October 1's NYC Slut Walk didn't get the attention from progressives that Occupy Wall Street does:
It wasn’t until I marched in SlutWalk that I finally got it. It was simply this: No matter
how hyped SlutWalk had been, no matter how long the marches had been going on or how global their reach was, no one ever imagined we could book Radiohead. We had all known that wasn’t our place; it wasn’t a degree of recognition we felt entitled to, even in our fantasies. Even on the day we marched, we weren’t the biggest show in town. We had accepted that.
We didn’t tell the Wall Streeters it was their duty to join forces with us; we didn’t express resentment that more of them hadn’t come uptown. We were just feminists, after all. We might well be the next wave, but to the progressive community we looked a lot like the feminist waves before us: A sort of women’s auxiliary to the real movement. Maybe admirable, mostly irrelevant.
(Photo of Slut Walk in Chicago via flickr user graciehagen.)
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