On April 25,2011 LA,CA and USA celebrated Denim Day. Some of you may be wondering what Denim Day is. Well in Italy 1990, an 18-year old girl is picked up by her married 45-year old driving instructor for her very first lesson. He takes her to an isolated road, pulls her out of the car, wrestles her out of one leg of her jeans and forcefully rapes her. Threatened with death if she tells anyone, he makes her drive the car home. Later that night she tells her parents, and they help and support her to press charges. The perpetrator gets arrested and is prosecuted. He is convicted of rape and sentenced to jail. He appeals the sentence. The case makes it’s all the way to the Italian Supreme Court. Within a matter of days the case against the driving instructor is overturned, dismissed, and the perpetrator released. In a statement by the Chief Judge, he argued, “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.” Enraged by the verdict, within a matter of hours the women in the Italian Parliament launched into immediate action and protested by wearing jeans to work.
Denim Day was formed to bring awareness to women and men that sexual violence is never OK, regardless of how tight your clothes are, how reveling your clothes are, etc. It does not give the right to any one to violate you.!. So now wear your jeans proud and uniquely and stand up for sexual violence prevention.!
*If a victim of sexual violence please contact police authority and/or talk to someone you trust, so they can contact authority. NO means NO !
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