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In reply to the discussion: Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped [View all]mistertrickster
(7,062 posts)That's what you're saying too -- "common sense" steps means women are responsible for their own rape, they need not to dress provocatively or go in bars. I suppose you probably think married women are never raped by their husbands?
Golly, since you already know what I think, why don't you just respond the way I'd respond and then tell me why it's wrong?
If I go to the toughest part of town at two a.m. with a couple of fifties sticking out of my pocket, dead drunk, alone, staggering down the sidewalk, am I more or less likely to get beaten and robbed than if I don't?
Am I responsible for getting beaten and robbed? No, indeed.
Could I have taken common-sense steps to make it less likely that I'd get beaten and robbed? Yes, I could have.
Oddly, using this same approach with women and rape means that you're blaming women for getting raped. It's as if when you tell someone to drive carefully on ice, any accident they have while driving on ice is their own fault.
It's not consistent.