By Joshua Errett

All over the world, women must live through the threat of rape, sexual assault and gender violence. During the feminist movements of the 1970s, there was a very vocal movement to reject this culture of fear, bringing out arguments against changing one’s lifestyle for the sake of male violence. Perhaps best exemplified by the now-annual Take Back the Night march, the idea is that a woman should be able to walk along a street at night without thought of some brutal act of sexual violence. Torontoist, in our university years, once argued for an after-dark curfew for all males, effectively projecting a woman’s inability to safely walk the streets at night on to their male counterparts. But we digress. As if in response to the Take Back the Night marches, men are invited to participate in a ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’ march this Saturday, August 20. This is, for lack of a better slogan, a ‘men against sexual violence-against women’ protest, naturally consisting of a march and a shoe drive for local women’s shelters. Sign-ins begin at 11am. Come by even if you aren’t a man. And download a few stickers.