{"id":260,"date":"2017-10-28T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2017-10-28T01:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T06:48:00","slug":"our-choice-is-humanity-or-savagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/our-choice-is-humanity-or-savagery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Choice is Humanity or Savagery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published September 28, 2015<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;\"><strong>GLN @ &#8220;SlutWalk&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #4b0082; font-family: open sans,helvetica neue,arial,helvetica,verdana,sans-serif;\"><strong><em>Watch a&nbsp;moving speech by GLN&#8217;s Roger Fraser<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uXoFmQSdRzI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/d3589727-7b3b-40b4-a1ab-1ff5f296434b.jpg\" alt=\"SlutWalk 2015\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"545\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2011, a Toronto, Canada cop said in response to a rape that women should avoid sexual assault by not dressing as &#8220;sluts.&#8221; Women and their allies responded to this victim-blaming with a growing multi-national movement known as &#8220;SlutWalk.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSlutWalk, now hosted in cities across North America, is a protest against our sexist society which frequently excuses and minimizes sexual assault, and shields the individual perpetrators and the misogynist society that encourages rape.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gayliberation.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gay Liberation Network<\/a>&#8216;s Roger Fraser was one of the speakers at Chicago&#8217;s SlutWalk and gave his own unique take on the repression of sexuality to meet hetero-normative expectations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Here is Roger&#8217;s deeply personal, courageous speech: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uXoFmQSdRzI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/uXoFmQSdRzI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published September 28, 2015 GLN @ &#8220;SlutWalk&#8221; Watch a&nbsp;moving speech by GLN&#8217;s Roger Fraser In 2011, a Toronto, Canada cop said in response to a rape that women should <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/our-choice-is-humanity-or-savagery\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[87,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexism","tag-rape","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-slutwalk","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}