Being expected to take responsibility for your own safety isn't victim blaming

Every city has regions where it is best to avoid. I don't think the people there who are willing to hurt and attack you are going to give a **** as to whether you judge them or not.

I'll rephrase that, not doing something blatantly risky is better than going ahead and doing it anyway. We're going around in circles.

Your judgement of what is and isn't "blatantly risky" is extremely limited.

In 90% of rapes, there was literally nothing the woman could have done to stop it.

The number of sexual assaults has risen recently, yet women are more safety-conscious than ever. What does that tell you?

Your judgement of what is and isn't "blatantly risky" is extremely limited.

inb4 ****storm

Want to expand on that? You're basing that off a few examples I've given.

You appear to think that a significant proportion of rapes occur to drunk, skimpily dressed women down dark alleys, otherwise why would you consider that "risky behaviour"?

I've already explained to you that this isn't the case.

I've already explained to you that this isn't the case.

Not her fault in the slightest. It is the rapists fault for raping, not the victims fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What you are doing is victim blaming. A woman has the right to wear whatever she likes.

That analogy is flawed,

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A woman is not a ****ing seatbelt, or a house with a window left open, they are a ****ing human being?

Your prophesying was accurate, aha.

No, you actually explained that most rapes are done by somebody they know.

What about the rapes when the victim doesn't know their attacker? Maybe a significant number of those victims were drunk and skimpily dressed at 3am.

While anecdotal evidence doesn't really account for much, the only two rapes there have been near me were like that.

Maybe some of them were, maybe some of them weren't. Would the girls have NOT been raped had they dressed more modestly? Probably not. Would they have been 100% safe in a taxi or a bus? Again, probably not.

As risky behaviours go, its not particularly risky. Probably less risky than not taking the precaution of putting up cctv around your house and bars on the window.

So I will ask you: have you taken those precautions? If not, how on earth can you expect to ask other people to take less necessary precautions?

These are just assertions. You have beliefs you nor anybody could back up because relevant data is not available to us.

Except it is available, as I have seen it before, hence my ability to speak with some confidence on this matter.



Am I going to go find it for you, hmmm...let me think about that... no.

A woman is not a ****ing seatbelt, or a house with a window left open, they are a ****ing human being?

"Yuh-huh, I HAVE seen it, but why should I show YOU?"

because that's how the majority of rapes happen, is it?

No, but it's how many happen and continue to happen. Something doesn't actually need to be the majority of cases to be become relevant and worth considering as a risk.