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In reply to the discussion: Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped [View all]redqueen
(115,113 posts)No one is saying "everybody, from this day forward, has to stop telling women to take any precautions or look out for their own well being and safety". We all care about the women in our life, and we will go on showing that care by providing such basic, common sense, and more than anything else VERY WELL KNOWN AND OFTEN REPEATED advice.
If you read the ****** OP, it says (quite clearly, I will add) no more "ad campaigns and public service announcements targeted at women to teach them how to avoid rape".
Did that get through?
No more AD CAMPAIGNS. No more PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS.
You know, the things that have never been aimed at boys and men who think that women play hard to get, so 'no' sometimes means 'yes'; or that sex is a 'need' that they just can't do without; or that women who dress a certain way or act a certain way or have a certain type of job can't be raped cause they're sending out signals that they want it, and it's really just the way they're raised (to be 'good' girls) that makes them not want to say yes, so they say no, but really you know they want it. Or whatever the hell other kinds of rationalizations these people use to stay in denial about what they are doing, and who they are.
This is really making me sick that I have to spell this out here.
But ... am I surprised? Not at all.
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