Slut walk set to take to Wagga steets

By Ken Grimson
Updated November 7 2012 - 3:05pm, first published June 9 2011 - 10:30pm
June Price and her daughter Lucy (24) are welcoming any woman to join the Wagga slut walk on Monday to defend the right of women to dress as they please
June Price and her daughter Lucy (24) are welcoming any woman to join the Wagga slut walk on Monday to defend the right of women to dress as they please

A CANADIAN police officer who told students that women should avoid dressing like "sluts" in order not to be victimised angered women around the world so much they organised protest marches.One of the marches will be held in Wagga at 2pm on Monday, leaving from the Civic Centre and proceeding along both sides of Baylis Street before ending at the Victory Memorial Gardens.Organiser of the Wagga "slut walk", June Price, agreed the name of the event was confronting."There has been a lot of talk for and against around Wagga in general about using these words, but that is what the Canadian police officer said," Ms Price said.She said some people may be offended by use of the word slut, but she argued its use had drawn attention to the important issue.Ms Price defended the right of women to dress how they pleased."No woman puts on a miniskirt and says I want to be gang-raped," she said.Ms Price said she organised the Wagga walk because the city was no different to other places when it came to sexual assault."Women are sort of blamed for things that men do in the way of sexual violence; it happens all over the world," she said."They come up with the excuses: 'I was drunk, she was drunk, she was wearing provocative clothing, she was walking alone along the street and I thought I had the right to attack her'."

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