DU Poll on Attitudes toward Rape

[DuaneBidoux]

79. No..never RESPONSIBLE under those circumstances but...(I may get creamed for this)

there are indeed actions that any adult (see last paragraph) can take in analyzing any situation that may either increase or decrease risk.

You might choose to walk down a dark alley in a bad neighborhood and you will increase your likelyhood of being mugged but if you stuck to a lighted pathway with lots of people you might be less likely to be attacked. No matter which of the two situations occurs you are never responsible for the criminal actions of another.

There is no way no how a women under the circumstances listed is ever responsible in the sense of to blame. But I don't care whether you are a man, woman, straight, gay or whatever going home with someone you barely know is more risky than if you decided not to go home with that stranger.

There it is. I'm ready for the onslaught.

Oh and by the way anyone, man, woman or child can be raped (there have been plenty of boys who have discovered this and for them not only are they not responsible one cannot say they made "wise" or "unwise" decisions because a child cannot make such decisions by virtue of being a child).