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==Debate==

[[File:I love sluts.jpg|thumb|[[Denver]] SlutWalk [[Pin-back button|button]], 2 July 2011]]

There have been a number of responses to the SlutWalk phenomenon, not all of them positive. For example, Australian commentator [[Andrew Bolt]] observed that guidance on how to dress in any given context is simply [[risk management]], and such advice need not exclude opposition to victim-blaming.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_its_not_carbon_pollution/ |title=‘No, it’s not "carbon pollution"’ |publisher=Herald Sun |date=2011-05-30 |accessdate=2011-05-30}}</ref> [[Rod Liddle]] agrees, saying "...I have a perfect right to leave my windows open when I nip to the shops for some fags, without being burgled. It doesn’t lessen the guilt of the burglar that I’ve left my window open, or even remotely suggest that I was deserving of being burgled. Just that it was more likely to happen."<ref>{{cite news|last=Liddle|first=Rod|title=Slut Walk: what a disappointment|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle/6954893/slut-walk-what-a-disappointment.thtml|accessdate=Jul 10, 2011|newspaper=The Spectator|date=WEDNESDAY, 18TH MAY 2011}}</ref> But [[Jessica Valenti]] says: "The idea that women’s clothing has some bearing on whether they will be raped is a dangerous myth feminists have tried to debunk for decades."<ref>{{cite news|last=Valenti|first=Jessica|title=SlutWalks and the future of feminism|url=http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/article_bcd1828b-7c59-5115-bee4-a7fddb9482b1.html|accessdate=Jul 10, 2011|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=June 8, 2011}}</ref>