Victim Blaming Or Taking Personal Responsibility To Minimise Risk?

Funny how the OP never actually mentioned rape. Maybe he's referring to something else? like this maybe:

I've always felt #2 was a weird answer for why people rape. You never hear of an old lady getting raped, the vast majority of rape on women occur when they still look good.

Oh don't worry my penis is in a chastity cage and my feminist overseer hold the keys

it's the only way I can contain my white privilege

I can see where this is going. The difference is, women are not objects, and most rapes are

1) committed by someone the victim knows and not the stranger in the alleyway. So what she wears isn't anything to do with it
2) are about power and domination and not sex, again, what she wears isn't anything to do with it/ It's more about putting power over people, which is why those with learning difficulties or mental illnesses are the victims of violent crime more often than other groups

So your whole thread is pointless, and yes, it is victim blaming

I think both sides of the argument seem to fail to acknowledge or address something important.

It would obviously be a bad idea for a girl to walk through town late at night only wearing a bikini. And of course anyone in their right mind would advise her not to do that.

However, the point is that it shouldn't be like that. A girl shouldn't have to worry about being raped no matter what she is wearing.

Now this may all seem arbitrary, but actually it leads to the conclusion that if a girl gets raped and she was wearing revealing clothes, she should not have to take any blame for it, because its not her that's in the wrong for wearing the revealing clothes, the blame is entirely on the rapist.

If we were to blame women for it would be oppressing women. It would be like saying Sikhs should get blamed for getting beaten up because wearing a turban makes you more of a target for racists.

Also, if a girl has been raped, then I think she has been subject to enough abuse already. I'm sure she won't even be going out at a night for a while so I hardly see how blaming is going to achieve anything.

I can totally see the point of this, however, I detect straw man.

There is a substantial difference between not doing anything that potentially could lead to a false rape allegation, and taking some means to stray away from extremely likely false rape allegation.

Never having sex with a woman, and making sure you don't leave your drinks unattended/get paralytic without the protection of a friends group on a night out, while with a group of men you don't know, are not equivalent pieces of advice in terms of the means to get away from the crime suggested. If false rape is even a crime; or merely wasting police time, although that's a separate issue.

What might be equivalent advice, for example, would be not having sex with somebody who had a history of false rape accusations, for example, although for the case of false rape, it is harder to find useful advice to avoid it.


However, since the two pieces of advice are not equivalent, the reductio fails and this is mere rhetoric.

It was a satire...

2 hrs later.