Rape:'Why didn't you take a taxi?'

Well, if the taxi driver has a brain, then they would realise that making a phone call to tell someone you are in a random taxi isn't going to make a difference. If he was going to rape you, he would probably be in a unregistered taxi that has no way of being tracked unless it is visually picked up.

So by your logic, it is futile to take precautions.
Well, tell that to everyone who has either avoided rape or attacks due to these precautions
Wake up and take responsibility for you actions, or more accurately, inactions.

Both people are at fault when the victim is able to avoid the crime.
No one would have sympathy for the idiot who walked around a poor town with his wallet and phone out in their palms.
Why is it different with this? Oh, because it is a crime where women like to rally around the " OMG men did it!" flag and deny any responsibility for their own safety and pretend that every person is a good person as they are lazy. Well guess what? These are sadly the consequences for denial.

It's not safe for women to be walking around alone at night; shouldn't we be tackling that issue rather than berating women for not taking taxis?

Oh thank Lord, someone talking sense. Why are we telling women not to get raped instead of telling men not to rape?

It's not like getting a taxi is even something everyone can do. You can't always afford a taxi (especially if you're in London!), you can't always flag one down, you might not have a working phone on you (lack of credit, lack of battery) and you might have a phone but no idea of local taxi numbers. Does this mean you deserve to be raped? Obviously not.

The point here should be 'if you see a woman walking alone at night, don't rape her' as opposed to 'if you're a woman, or have any chance of being perceived as one, don't walk around alone at night'.

Women should not be made to feel bad for having been raped.

Herpaderp - but we do tackle rape, HENCE why it is against the law! God forbid people take responsibility for their own safety!

Well stay on the phone then during the journey, and if they seem dodgy take their license number, and don't go into an unregistered taxi, wait for one that is by a proper taxi company? Not exactly difficult.

Oh thank Lord, someone talking sense. Why are we telling women not to get raped instead of telling men not to rape?

It's not like getting a taxi is even something everyone can do. You can't always afford a taxi (especially if you're in London!), you can't always flag one down, you might not have a working phone on you (lack of credit, lack of battery) and you might have a phone but no idea of local taxi numbers. Does this mean you deserve to be raped? Obviously not.

The point here should be 'if you see a woman walking alone at night, don't rape her' as opposed to 'if you're a woman, or have any chance of being perceived as one, don't walk around alone at night'.

Why are we telling victims not to get raped instead of telling potential rapists not to rape?

Why should we have to take a taxi? Yes it's safer, we know that (well apart from unlicensed taxi drivers). However shouldn't we have the freedom to choose whether or not we can take a taxi, without the fear of being raped? The rapists should be stopped, not the woman for choosing the route she wants to go home by.

I'm sorry but this isn't always the case. Up until last year, I would walk anywhere on my own in the dark and it wouldn't bother me. I know it's the same old "I didn't think it would happen to me" but no-one does. I work at my local pub and used to walk home by myself at midnight and it would only take 5 minutes. Last year, although I wasn't raped, I was attacked on my way home from work, on my own street, at 10.30 at night. Women are now being criticised for not taking taxis home but where do you draw the line? Should I have been getting a taxi for that 5 minute walk four times a week?

Oh yea. So pay for the taxi and a phone call home as well.

Also, make sure you carry round a pen and pad of paper, so that you can take licence number down after your in the cab and you decided they are dodgy.

Obviously, you cannot forget that you need to make sure that it is a "proper taxi company" as well because that could never be faked.

I suggest that we should also bring a camera in the bag to photograph the taxi driver.

Both people are at fault when the victim is able to avoid the crime.
No one would have sympathy for the idiot who walked around a poor town with his wallet and phone out in their palms.
Why is it different with this? Oh, because it is a crime where women like to rally around the " OMG men did it!" flag and deny any responsibility for their own safety and pretend that every person is a good person as they are lazy. Well guess what? These are sadly the consequences for denial.

If only we could station a police officer in every single dark area of the entire country. In fact, lets do it. Let's make 1/4 of our population a police officer.

Don't be so obtuse, everyone has a mobile nowadays, with the capability of taking notes, and I meant tell the person on the phone. Also they have to have their licence on display, open the door, say hi, make sure you can see they have a license, and that it looks legit, or even better phone one from a proper company, and also most phones have cameras nowadays

Anything else you want to pick at? It is all quite reasonable.