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Showing Original Post only (View all)DU Poll on Attitudes toward Rape [View all]
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For simplicity sake, please vote YES if you agree with any of the following (starred) statements:
Vote NO if you disagree with all the statements:
A woman is responsible for forced, unwanted sex against her will if she
* dresses in skimpy or tight clothes that show off her body.
* drinks at a bar and flirts with one or more men.
* goes to a man's apartment after a date or after drinking with a man at a bar.
* gets so drunk that she passes out.
* crawls into bed with a man.
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I'm trying to get a feeling for attitudes toward rape among the DU community and contrast them with a study that was conducted in London.
Thank you.
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I would say she isn't too intelligent about her well-being if she does 4, 5 and 6...
rfranklin
Feb 2012
#2
I think there is a difference between "she deserved it" and she was tempting fate...
rfranklin
Feb 2012
#8
If she says "No" or "Stop" etc at any time and he continues - it's rape.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2012
#11
No victim is ever responsible for "forced, unwanted sex against" their will.
Solly Mack
Feb 2012
#19
I know people who have been mugged WITHOUT being drunk or carrying lots of money.
Chorophyll
Feb 2012
#49
Check out this poster from Stop Rape UK. Kind of explains who is responsible for rape
likesmountains 52
Feb 2012
#32
No..never RESPONSIBLE under those circumstances but...(I may get creamed for this)
DuaneBidoux
Feb 2012
#79
I vote no. But having said that, obvioulsy a woman should not be getting so drunk that she passes
totodeinhere
Feb 2012
#83