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Originally Posted by futuresandpasts  Anyway, I'm completely stunned by the students thinking that if a woman is 'alone and walking in a dangerous or deserted area' she's 'asking for it'. So if I nip out to the shop at night for a pint of milk and someone rapes me, these people would seriously say that I'm responsible in some way? Do they think women should travel in packs? |
It's a postion thats indefensible but understandable. Only because there exist people who will take advantage of such situations and rape women though, not because the womans actions themselves have anything to do with it.
To use a glib, and borderline offensive analogy, if someone leaves their door unlocked then goes out and gets their stuff nicked then they might have avoided it had they locked their door. This might be true but it doesn't imply that we should aspire to a society of locked doors.
Or something.
