It seems that there are people hear who are prepared to let rapists and potential rapists decide how we behave and dress - funny old world!


Well, I am one who does. I lock my car against potential car thieves. I work at modest jobs so I can get insurance against potential surgeries.

I think that we have to all participate in some limitations of our legal freedoms voluntarily in order to make the world safer for ourselves and others, realizing that there are people who are not quite all there in various capacities, that there are all sorts of people on drugs, there are people who have not been properly socialized and have no moral teachings whatsoever..that even if I as an overweight 60 year old female start dressing provocatively (and would not have much of an audience for it), it still makes the world less safe for a 15 year-old. I have an obligation to tell the 15 year olds what can happen if they dress like many do, or if if they are alone with young men (heaven forbid older ones)...that they are dealing with millions of years of evolution, that not all men will stop and not all can stop..those with brain damage etc. That they have the same duties that we had when we were teenagers and that is to tone it down, not flaunt it etc.

It doesn't mean for a minute that anyone deserves anything bad to happen to them but still we have to let go of the comfort of being either naive or thinking that because things should be a certain way that that is the way they are. It is a dangerous world out there and we have to make allowances for it and voluntarily limit our behaviors..just my opinion but pretty much standard thought for many cultures for many thousands of years. mg