Womans Brilliant Analogy Sums Up The Insidiousness Of Victim Blaming

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. To answer just your first question,

yeah, they should be able to wear whatever they want wherever they want.

If it were the case that only scantily clad young women were ever raped, then maybe the "how she was dressed" defense would have some merit. But given that men rape women regardless of how they're dressed, rape pre-adolescent girls as well as babies, women well into their elderhood, the "how she was dressed" claim is meaningless. Not to mention the guys who are triggered by how a woman is dressed don't exactly make that known. They don't carry a sign that says, "I rape scantily clad teens". That would be helpful, perhaps, but they don't.

The problem with rape is a problem of men, not women. Men who don't want to take responsibility for their actions, who want to say "It's HER fault!!!" rather than exercising a bit of self-control over themselves.