Amber Rose has had to put up with some serious bullshit in her time, particularly from the men who were all too glad to have sex with her and objectify her body publicly… until they broke up and it was easier to treat her like worthless trash and try to make her feel bad about the very things that attracted them to her in the first place. Misogyny at its finest! Thankfully, Amber has refused to let the likes of Kanye West (lest we forget his “30 showers” bullshit) and Wiz Khalifa put her down, and instead she held a Slut Walk in LA on Saturday, encouraging women everywhere to be proud of their bodies and urging them to refuse being shamed for their sexuality.
“I deal with a lot of equality issues in my own life, and I wanted to make a difference any way I can,” Rose told MTV News at a press conference on Friday (Oct. 2). “So basically me and my team put our blood, sweat and tears into developing our own SlutWalk to bring awareness to what’s going on.”
She went on to say that as much as it was about expressing your sexuality, it’s also about basic safety for women, who are constantly blamed for their own rapes and sexual assaults and told that they were “asking for it” based on how they were dressed.
“It seems as though the authorities and men would blame the women, basically insinuating that they wanted to get touched because they had on a short skirt or they had a bra top — that they were asking for it,” Rose said. “I know from personally having male friends, there would be a girl in the club that was maybe dancing very sexy and she had a short skirt, and they would be like, ‘She’s DTF. She’s ready to go.’ And I’m like, ‘Maybe she’s just having fun with her friends and she doesn’t like you and she doesn’t want to have sex with you.’ But usually, men — and women, also — would look at a girl like that and assume that she was not just having a good time.”
Love me some Amber Rose. During the Slut Walk, she also gave a really emotional speech in which she gave Kanye and Wiz her forgiveness, despite what they’ve put her through:
Below are some more photos from the event – enjoy!
