Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement?

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41. It necessarily implies responsibility.

He's telling women that it is their responsibility to abstain from alcohol in the event they are sexually assaulted, and warning them that should they fail to vigilantly adhere to this absurd maxim that they have no right to complain when no one takes their allegations seriously.

You could just as easily -- and (ir)rationally -- argue that all women should carry guns, or learn Aikido, or be accompanied by a bodyguard at all times when going out because doing any of these things might diminish the chances of rape, or at the very least show that they took some precaution beforehand. The fact of the matter is rapists will often target intoxicated victims precisely because of this attitude -- because they know people will assume that if a girl gets drunk to the point of blacking out, that she's practically asking someone to take advantage of her.

Case in point: Steubenville.

Dawkins isn't giving good advice, he's reinforcing the fucking rapists' position. He's transferring responsibility, at least in part, from the criminal to the fucking victim, and creating some bullshit metric by which we determine just how much sympathy we should show rape victims based entirely upon how prepared they were for the eventuality.

Like I said before: Fundamental Attribution Error. It's really easy to criticize people's decisions from 30,000 feet, well after the fact... and even easier, it would seem, to attribute one's misfortunes to internal, dispositional causes than rather looking at the big picture.

But I'm guessing they don't go over that shit in evolutionary biology classes.