"jeddy, there have always been unscrupulous and dangerous women around, who loved leading men on, as I have spoken of before."


This is the crux of the perversity of Lizzie's argument: the woman who leads a man on as some dangerous, treacherous jezebel. Yet what makes her so very "dangerous", and to whom? Every "prick tease" that has ever lived in the history of the world is not equivalent in danger to one single rapist.


"There always have been and there always will be. What has happened now though, is that the behaviour of a minority has rippled right out into the behaviour of the majority and that is worrying, very worrying."

No, it hasn't. Again, there is the tendency to view the world with knee-jerk hysteria.

Women who "love leading men on" are not the majority.

Women who get falling down drunk and terrorise town centres of a Saturday night are not the majority.

Women who tart themselves out and set out from their homes and think, "I am going to find a bloke tonight, lead him on, take him home, get him into bed, get him all hot and bothered and then refuse to have sex with him - and I will enjoy this, because it makes me feel powerful," are not only not the majority, they are very rare indeed.



Just wanted to introduce a bit of perspective (and sanity) into the argument.