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I think the problem with attributing someone's clothing to personal responsibility, is that there's the cut-off between an acknowledged absolute, as in the case of rape being wrong, and the innumerable variations that clothing can take. If there's any correlation of responsibility, as this suggests, then we'd have an ambiguous scale of criminality. That, wearing one combination of clothing, a woman is somehow more to blame for her attack than if she were wearing another combination. That rape would be either more or less wrong in that regard. That if the more revealing is her clothing, the more culpable she is, then total nudity would be somehow more of a green light than if she were wearing a burka.
The fact that a man might react more strongly to one combination than another, is a matter purely of that man's self-control and morality. We don't hold others responsible for our moral choices. Rape is not self-defence, after all. To claim otherwise is to claim that men are mindless beasts.
The fact that a man might react more strongly to one combination than another, is a matter purely of that man's self-control and morality. We don't hold others responsible for our moral choices. Rape is not self-defence, after all. To claim otherwise is to claim that men are mindless beasts.