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The niece of Toronto mayor Rob Ford is under fire for telling women concerned about sexual assault to not “dress like a whore” on Twitter Wednesday evening.
Krista Ford, a former Lingerie Football player, took to the microblogging site to offer the controversial advice just an hour after authorities held a news conference about a string of sexual assaults in Canada’s largest city, the Toronto Star reported.
“Stay alert, walk tall, carry mace, take self-defence classes don’t dress like a whore,” she tweeted, adding “#DontBeAVictim #StreetSmart.”
The tweet was later deleted.
Ford, the daughter of Toronto councilor Doug Ford, describes herself on Twitter as a personal trainer, promotional model and TV personality.
She made headlines last year when she was named captain of Toronto’s Lingerie Football League team, the Toronto Triumph. However, she quit soon after.
Several Twitter users expressed outrage over Ford’s tweet and many called her out for promoting the use of mace, which is considered an illegal weapon in Toronto.
“Wait, did @kristaford just make a ridiculously sexist comment AND encourage people to carry prohibited weapons?” one user tweeted.
“just curious, mace is a prohibited weapon and why are a women’s clothes to blame for a sexual assault,” another wrote.
Krista Ford/via Facebook
Ford made headlines last year when she was named captain of Toronto’s Lingerie Football League team, the Toronto Triumph.
Ford did not reply to a request for comment as of Thursday morning.
Her advice comes a year after a Toronto police officer stirred controversy when he told female students at a York University law class that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized,” according to the Toronto Sun.
He later apologized for the comment, but not before sparking a series “SlutWalk” marches in cities across the globe.
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The marches are designed to protest comments that suggest that women’s dress or appearance can be linked to sexual assault.
SlutWalk Toronto responded to Ford’s advice on Twitter Thursday.
“(Krista Ford’s) tweet was victim-blaming and misguided,” the group tweeted. “That said, harassing, slut-shaming, name-calling, threatening her is not helpful.”
croberts@nydailynews.com
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Get married in Sri Lanka
2:14pm Thursday 30th Aug 2012 in Freetime
By Beverley Morrison
Live a dream
It’s a genuine 2012 quandary for many brides and grooms – marry during home or conduct off into a nightfall for a regretful beach wedding?
An augmenting series of British couples are selecting to marry abroad to equivocate a cost – and infrequently a con – of marrying during home.
Not usually can we save income by removing hitched in an outlandish and mostly cheaper location, we can also equivocate carrying to entice all those kin we haven’t seen given your childhood.
Recent surveys by Travelex and Mintel put a numbers of British couples formulation to marry abroad as high as 80,000 – that’s a third of all those due to marry in 2012.
With a cost of a normal UK marriage using to around £20,000 it’s positively a consideration. But a lift of family and friends – a enterprise to get married in front of those who are nearby and
dear to we – mostly outweighs a suspicion of what we competence save.
After all, your marriage will hopefully be a biggest day of your life and we wish to make it a noted one.So for many couples it is a box of: hang a expense, let’s have a party.
However for those formulation to marry here though hungry after a wander along a beach with their dear in that hugely costly marriage dress, there’s now a shrewd solution.
Instead of make-up your delegate divided after a vows have been exchanged, we can take it on honeymoon for a really special photo-shoot. Several debate operators and abroad hotels offer this option. The
Reef Villa and Spa in Sri Lanka, for example, is charity newly married brides a possibility to be photographed in their dresses in a hotel’sbeautiful beachside grounds.
Reef is a sensuous boutique hotel set in 3 acres of outlandish pleasant gardens with palm fringed pavilions and thoughtfulness pools that encapsulate a intrigue and loftiness of Sri Lanka.
The hotel is charity any bride and husband engagement a special photography package a dual hour fire with a photographer in a sensuous pleasant gardens. The integrate can wander along a palm-fringed
beach or float into a nightfall on a colourfully arrayed elephant.
Reef has 7 singular and magnificent private suites, luxuriously designed on Indo-Colonial lines. There’s a immeasurable sandy beachfront, all continue tennis court, vast forever swimming pool, tropical
gardens and pavilions, epicurean kitchens and a refuge of a Reefresh Spa. A dual hour print fire costs US$ 270 and includes for a CD with a smallest of 30 photographs.
A float into a nightfall on an elephant can be requisitioned for an hour during an additional cost of US$425.00.
Price per night in a Reef Suite starts from US$ 440. Prices current until Oct 31, 2013.
www.reefvilla.com