So... according to a third of respondents to the Amnesty survey out today, women who dress provocatively and flirt with men are asking to be raped.
I imagine I'm preaching to the converted here, because presuambly that third of people are sitting in a wood somewhere trying to communicate by banging on bits of animal bone. But it makes me too angry to ignore.
It's not only insulting to women, it's insulting to men by saying that they're so bloody primative that they can't help but rape a woman as soon as they've got a glimpse of her ankle.
Women (or men for that matter) always have the right to say no. Even if you've been flirting shamelessly all night. Even if you were hoping to have a one-night stand that night with someone else. Even if you've already promised sex and change your mind at the last minute.
To say that some women could use some crime-prevention advice is one thing, but to put any blame whatsoever towards the victim of a rape is absolutely unacceptable.
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Here's what gets me: the news are using 'to blame for' and 'responsible for' interchangably. What did they ask people? If they said 'is she to blame if she's drunk?' then let us hope that those who answered yes get taught the error of their ways. But in this day and age you would have to say for example that if you leave your phone on the pub table you are partially responsible for it getting nicked, and if you're inebriated to the point where you're not really aware of your surroundings or capable of running away, that the drunkeness is partially responsible if you get attacked. If you asked the question in such a way as it implied that's what you meant, a number of people might have been put down as thinking the woman is 'to blame' when that's not what they meant.
At least I hope that's what happened.
I disagree. If you leave your phone on the table in a pub, you're stupid. But the responsibility still lies 100% with the person who's stolen it.
Well obviously I'm speaking from the viewpoint of a tireless cynic...
Hey. You copied my post! Stop it! (Even if you were four days ahead of me.)
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