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Thread #127384   Message #2841071
Posted By: Richard Bridge
16-Feb-10 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: Some rape victims should take blame
At the bottom of all the judgmentalism about women who dress or behave "badly" is the idea of women as property, saving their pearl beyond price for Mr Right and the thought that "Nice Girls don't" (whatever) the "Don't" might be smoke in the street, swear, drink, flirt, dress "provocatively" or not at all, "tease" etc etc.

Wake up and smell the pheromones! Nice girls do if they want to, and nasty ones likewise. And they are entitled not to if they don't want to.

Sending mixed messages, using sex to obtain advantage, or to cause discomfiture, or as part of manipulative behaviour may well be unpleasant and unjustifiable, but they do not amount to a rape victim "getting what she deserved".