Author and sex educator Violet Blue just wrote a great article explaining why she thinks a new mass feminist protest is "a significant tipping point in cultural evolution" - and she's serious. "Yes: I think scantily clad girls marching in the streets around the world are agents of change for our species."
It started in April when a Toronto cop said that to stay safe from rape, women "should avoid dressing like sluts". Soon "my clothes are not my consent" protests erupted, and the "SlutWalk" events "had an international identity within a few months," representing "a huge reclamation and restatement about boundaries and women's bodies."
Now sex workers, young exhibitionists, high-heel feminists and random pissed-off women are marching "for the right to dress as they like while having their boundaries respected," and Violet calls them the true punk rockers - the disruptors.
"They're the ones with the brass ovaries enough to dress like sluts and tell the world to STFU about what they should, or shouldn't do, with their sexiness."