A girl could be dressed in nothing and it's still the man's responsibility not to rape. I find the opinion that a woman or girl's clothing can cause rape...vile. Perhaps, we could start teaching men and boys not to rape, rather then teaching girls they are asking for it.
THANK YOU. Not speaking to anyone directly, but this has always been my problem with the "we should watch what we wear" or "so and so shouldn't have been wearing x, y, z" mentality. While I completely agree that little girls shouldn't be wearing what's meant for a woman, and that there needs to be standards in terms of what's appropriate as they grow up, I don't believe we should all dress according to "will this get me raped today?"
It's just not fair. It's not fair to have to even go there in our minds and have to wonder what will attract the wrong type of person. I speak as a Floridian that's grown up wearing shorts and bikinis to the gas station en route to the beach, that's grown up wearing summer skirts and dresses to the grocery store with no problem. When I moved to Brooklyn, NY I was bartending and I made sure to cover up from head to toe because the murmurings I heard if I just wore a tank top were horrible. If I even just smiled I would hear later from my roommate disgusting comments being said around the bar about my mouth. And people wondered why I wore sweaters and t-shirts!
Even to walk my dog in broad daylight I wouldn't dare wear shorts...instead I felt forced to wear hoodies and baggy pants and I was still harassed by men almost daily...
Despite the astronomical amount of recidivist sex offenders running rampant in California, life here is much different and I feel more comfortable wearing shorts and skirts and dresses, and lucky for me I have a very protective Mexican girlfriend now, lol.
All this aside, I still carry a spring assisted knife no matter how I'm dressed. The thing is, in most cases it would seem these children/teenagers/young women, etc aren't doing anything that should warrant the attention of sexual predators, they're just going about their daily lives as they should be able to, and therein lies the real tragedy.
The only solution I see is teaching our little boys and young men not to rape and kill, not that they have some animalistic urge that's off set by clothing or behavior. How about innocence just be left alone?
