You are making assumptions based on your personal feelings, attractions. The majority of rapes that you are describing (where the victim is wearing something that attracts their rapist to them with little to no chance to even interact with the rapist) is not going to be based on clothing as much as the type of person that particular rapist is attracted to or what the rapist is attracted to. You are trying to apply the rationale of a man and his attractions to a rapist who already has issues (they wouldn't feel it was okay to rape a woman if they didn't have issues).
Clothing would only come into play with some specific rapists, but what kind of clothing could really be anything. It could be any clothing that is red, or long skirts, or showing cleavage, or a woman that goes out her way to look like a man/less feminine or even just natural. It is impossible to know what might attract a potential rapist without knowing the particular psychology or MO of that rapist. Some rapists only attack redheads, others only women between certain ages, and still others only women who hold certain jobs or are in certain positions.
Again, however; you're talking about hardcore psychopaths there. Like it or not, not all rapists fit that bill.
Again, look at those boys in Steubenville. You can't tell me that the behavior and style of dress of the girl in that case didn't play at least some role in giving her rapists the impression that it would be okay for them to "cop a feel" and take advantage after she passed out.
Sure, it tends to require a somewhat disturbed individual to make those kinds of mental leaps in the first place. However, that doesn't mean that there is necessarily anything "pathological" about their behavior.
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And yes, they were still wrong. Explaining the motivations behind certain behaviors does not excuse them.
That should really go without saying, but you apparently never know with this thread. :roll:
Why are you still arguing about this? I thought you agreed that clothing played a negligible role in rape?
It doesn't play a major role, but it does play at least
some role in some cases.
A couple of posters in this thread are trying to claim that it plays literally
no role. I'm sorry, but that is simply obtuse.
My God! How many women do you think run around out in public like that? She looks like a street whore.
Most women are NOT going to dress like that in public because people might mistake them for prostitutes, seriously. :lol:
Do you think women are completely CLUELESS?
Unfortunately, some are. :shrug:
Most are not, thank God, but more responsible women were never the kinds I was referring to here in the first place.