[governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in Brazil

[michael gurstein]

I think you are missing the point...

The use of the term "slut" was meant to be transgressive... And of course
trangressions are highly culturally specific so what is transgressive (and
thus "shocking"/attention grabbing, which was point) in one culture may be
commonplace and quite acceptable in another and this is even more the case
for transgressive terminology than for transgressive acts...

So it is quite possible that the degree and nature of transgression which
was meant to be attached to the term "slut" as in "slut walk" in Toronto,
is/was the equivalent of "bitch" in Brazil (I have no idea since I don't
speak Brazilian (or any) Portuguese...

(It should probably be noted that based on the pictures it would appear that
apart from the nudity (q.v.) the actual content of the "walk" was quite
similar in SP? as in TO.

M

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:31 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Facebook profiles blocked and content removed in
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In message <7A71AC53-6534-4EFE-9842-853F5D4AA19E at ella.com>, at 09:31:52 
on Thu, 31 May 2012, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> writes
>> The original meaning is closer to "whore" than "bitch" (which is 
>>simply a word for a vindictive woman, regardless of her sexual 
>>proclivities).
>
>I beleive the various denigrating words for women are culturally 
>variant, so an definitional exercise is sort of futile.  What is 
>invariant is that every language has a bushel full of words used to 
>denigrate women.

I think you are missing the point, because the original comments which 
were being protested about, were along the lines of "don't dress like 
whores", not "don't dress like bitches".

It's that very typecasting which the protesters want to highlight.
-- 
Roland Perry



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