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Thread #127384   Message #2841008
Posted By: frogprince
16-Feb-10 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: Some rape victims should take blame
I saw this yesterday, when I had not time to post, so some of this goes back aways:

Mauvepink said, "I stay away from the term provocative clothing as I cannot define what that is". Lonesome E.J. replied, "Oh come on", and described a rather extreme example. Neither of them is talking nonsense. No one would say there is no such thing as provocative clothing. But no one, apart from the mentality of the Taliban, would attempt to define a usable exact borderline between stylish attractive dress and the inappropriate.

Don't take me as in any way excusing assault on a woman because of her clothing or lack of clothing. Even complete nudity, in an inappropriate context, is absolutely no justification for rape.

I will say one thing that may bring some wrath on my head. Regarding a woman going to bed with a man, in a manner that would by all reasonable interpretation imply consent: she retains the right to change her mind, and say no; a man who doesn't respect that should not be held blameless. But if she has led him up to the point of intense arousal, and he doesn't stop, I can't see that he should be judged and penalized to the same degree as a man who has set out with the intention of rape.