So wearing clothes that someone might find appealing = behaving stupidly?
Give me a break. A woman knows damn well when she's wearing something
explicitly provocative. Hell, it's usually by design.
For that matter, I never claimed that clothing was the primary factor in driving these kinds of assaults in the first place. I said that it could be a
contributing factor in
some cases.
Look at my original example, for instance.
Again, believe that if you want.
In practical reality, on the other hand, things are almost never that simple. If a woman's wearing her best pair of booty shorts, spends the whole evening grinding said booty shorts up against some guy's crotch, lets him get her drunk while doing so, follows him to a secluded area afterwards, and then finds herself in an altercation at the end of the night when she says "no" and he tries to press the matter anyway, it cannot be denied that her poor choices ultimately did play a role in allowing the situation to escalate to that point.
Does that make the man's actions any less wrong? Nope. He should be fried like the rapist scum he is.
However, this doesn't alter the reality that it is very much in a woman's best interests to avoid the kinds of behaviors and situations which might result in her being victimized in the first place.
There are legitimately some women like that out there.
Do they deserve to be raped? No.
Are they behaving like idiots either way regardless? Yup.
Some rapes as in = rapes that are committed by the men who lose all sense of self control because she looks pretty - it's just THAT IRRESISTIBLE . . . must touch! He sees cleavage and is suddenly like a vampire in bloodlust.
Or men that feel slighted by a woman they perceived as "teasing" them and "aren't going to take 'no' for an answer from a damn slut," or men who are simply too damn drunk to know the difference, or men who simply don't see a particular problem with taking advantage of a woman who has passed out of her own accord, etca, etca...
Again, it is possible for rape to be a crime of passion rather than strictly pre-meditated.
I'll wager that the only people who are THAT ****ED UP are mentally inept. So - if you work with the criminally insane or mentally inept, look out.
For 99.99% of everyone else - follow through with the common sense things like 'don't hang out with guys who treat you and all other women like ****'.
I never said that
most men behave this way. Most don't.
Some, however; do. Women are a lot more likely to run afoul of them if they deliberately try to attract the wrong kinds of attention than they are if they behave with a bit more restraint.
So then you agree with me that the woman is NOT responsible for her rape because of clothing she is wearing.
Well I don't do those things, but if a person is raped because they made a mistake or a bad judgment, then I still don't put any responsibility on the victim. SHE wasn't out trying to hurt anyone with her clothing.
She is not responsible. The only "responsibility" a victim carries is making sure that they are not in a position to be victimized in the first place.
Responsibility for the crime itself always falls on the perpetrator.