The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127384   Message #2841095
Posted By: Genie
16-Feb-10 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: Some rape victims should take blame
Mary (and Lizzie), I don't disagree that young girls and even grown women sometimes dress and behave in reckless and teasing ways and that the girls, especially, need educating in that regard. (But teens and pre-teens have never been known for their wisdom and judgment.)

Let's not forget, though, that there are cultures where people wear little or no clothes at all, yet the men aren't allowed to force sex on an unwilling woman or girl.    And being sexually attractive to men isn't necessarily a matter of how tight or skimpy a girl or woman's clothes are.

We don't say women are "asking for it" because they wear bikinis at the beach.