SG women prepare to take part in SlutWalk at Hong Lim Park
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Singaporean women are preparing to take part in the local version of the SlutWalk on Dec 4 at Hong Lim Park. STOMPer Handsome Boy wonders if this movement is really necessary in Singapore, and if it might send out the wrong message to the young.
He also questions why some women take offence when men stare at them, even though they are aware they are dressed in a sexy manner.
The first SlutWalk took place on April 3 in Toronto, Canada, after a police officer said that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be vicitimised".
In response to this statement, Women took to the streets wearing skimpy outfits to promote women's rights and not blaming the victims in sex offences.
According to The New Paper, in the Singapore version of the SlutWalk, however, women do not have to dress like 'sluts' to take part -- they can turn up in anything, from jeans to T-shirt. Organisers say that one does not need to identify with being a 'slut' to participate, because the objective is to express sexuality without fear.
One supporter of the SlutWalk movement, permanent resident Miss Fei Wong, 32, feels that it is time for women to reclaim their right to express their sexuality without fear.
The regional assistant director of sales recalls how she was stared at by an elderly man as she walked past him in a body-hugging outfit.
She said:
"That elderly man was staring down at me, as if he was mentally raping me. I asked him in Hokkien: 'Uncle, what are you looking at?' Then he looked away."
"When a woman dresses up, she is bound to get some attention, but she is not asking for rape."
STOMPer Handsome Boy, however, challenges the relevance of having a SlutWalk in Singapore. He said:
"First of all, I would like to say that I'm all for women's rights.
"But I don't know if this whole SlutWalk thing is necessary or relevant in Singapore, or if it's just another copycat idea by women here who think that just because some women in a Western country is affected by it, they should be too.
"And I worry that because the word 'slut' is used for the movement (even if the ultimate objective is to promote women's rights), young girls might get the wrong message -- thinking that dressing provocatively is OK.
"I'm not saying that it's not all right for women to dress sexy (not naughty), but if they feel that they have the right to dress the way they like, then it's not fair for them to get upset when men stare at them, because the men can argue that they are free to look at whatever they like too!
"It's human nature for men to be attracted to pretty and sexy women, and let's face it -- some men take glances, others stare. That's how it is in the real world.
"So while I agree that rape victims should never be blamed, no matter how they are dressed, I also feel that women should be realistic if about certain things.
"If they are dressed in a sexy manner, they are bound to get attention, whether they like it or not.
"So I just feel that it's unfair for women to blame guys for staring when they feel that they have the right to dress sexy." -
"That elderly man was staring down at me, as if he was mentally raping me. I asked him in Hokkien: 'Uncle, what are you looking at?' Then he looked away."
"When a woman dresses up, she is bound to get some attention, but she is not asking for rape."R-O-F-L.
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Don't monkey see, monkey do lah.
People dressed as sluts you also want to follow.
No brain.
People eat shit, you also eat shit ar?
Our local people don't have the tradition of women dressing up as sluts in public.
This is against local tradition.
I completely disapprove. Pui. Garbage. Monkey see, monkey do.
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Originally posted by MooKu:
"When a woman dresses up, she is bound to get some attention, but she is not asking for rape."Shameless and brainless. This type of filth cannot be approved. They must be disapproved. This is the type of bad habit imported from foreign countries.
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Why not oppose the PAP, why dress as shameless sluts?
Dress as slut dare.
Oppose PAP don't dare.
Pui!
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When you dress in whatever way and people stare at you,
1) It's just a stare. What can it do, burn a hole through your dress?
2) Feel flattered, or start wondering if a bird pooped on your head if you're the self-doubting kind.I don't know what's the big fuss about this - people have all the freedom to look, just as how they have all the freedom to talk. Sometimes when you think that people are talking about you when you see them having a hushed conversation without you, maybe you're thinking too much. Same thing, when people stare at you, there's more than one possibility why they're doing so.
Fine, do the SlutWalk, express that you don't like to be stared at, but there is only so much ... such things ... can do.
Go take a self-defence course.
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Originally posted by MooKu:
Fine, do the SlutWalk, express that you don't like to be stared at, but there is only so much ... such things ... can do.
Dress as sluts is against the local tradition and culture. It is alien culture. I completely disapprove.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 25:
Dress as sluts is against the local tradition and culture. It is alien culture. I completely disapprove.
We should totally have some Asian Pryde man!
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What the world hate mst are sluts and rapist. But wait,i fear angel is a slutty rapist, anals men witha strado
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Originally posted by MooKu:
"That elderly man was staring down at me, as if he was mentally raping me. I asked him in Hokkien: 'Uncle, what are you looking at?' Then he looked away."
"When a woman dresses up, she is bound to get some attention, but she is not asking for rape."R-O-F-L.
If its brad pitt or tom cruise staring at her, will she do the same? balls to you.
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HAHAHAHA....FINALLY SG WOMEN ADMITTED TO THE SLUTS' ASSOCIATION...
its BRAVERY! BRAVO!
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WESTERN VALUES AT ITS ZENITH.....
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I support their march and hope they extend it to my house!
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Why these singaporean women want to imitate these western sluts?
We have our own values, cultures and traditionals.
There is no need to follow western sluts.
I oppose the slut walk.
fcukpap, you support or oppose the slutwalk?
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again this is allowed by our system as a display of "openness" in the covert and very bureaucratic system we have
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
again this is allowed by our system as a display of "openness" in the covert and very bureaucratic system we have
That is just PAP garbage.
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on the one hand the system speaks about retaining asian values...on the other..they walk left...
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
on the one hand the system speaks about retaining asian values...on the other..they walk left...
I don't think PAP approved of this disgraceful and shameless event. This type of bullshit event I oppose.
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just wonder if i could find any familiar faces among the sluts?
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as a guy, i don't understand the women in this..
you dress as if you sprayed on your clothes, and if some people look at you, you feel insulted...
and if they don't look at you, you go off feeling you are "unattractive and ugly" and feel insulted...
slutwalk?
i think a lot of these low-self esteem women need to see a shrink!
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
just wonder if i could find any familiar faces among the sluts?
Will you be happy now that they openly identify themselves as sluts?
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in tune with women's desires, lets support them ...it takes twice the guts of a male for these women to walk high as sluts on the bureaucratic streets of singapore....
give them a big round of applause....
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
in tune with women's desires, lets support them ...it takes twice the guts of a male for these women to walk high as sluts on the bureaucratic streets of singapore....
give them a big round of applause....
They openly oppose the PAP, oppose Harry Lee Kuan Yew then I will applause.