I was looking at it because...I got no defense.

Wait! I got a defense. This (NSFW) Tim/Kon totally makes me giggle.

No, that doesn't work as a defense.

In a much more serious vein--has there ever been any correlation proven between the way a woman dresses and her risk of being victim of rape or sexual assault? I mean, are the jackasses that are saying "Dressed like that, she was asking for it" contradicted by numbers?

Well, aren't the majority of sexual assaults committed by persons known to the victim? Which is flimsy correlation to contradicting that claim, but there's a line there.

And frankly, the whole statement pisses me off so goddamned much I'm moving into raaaage territory.

I'm actually engaging with someone I thought I got along with that's espousing that line of thinking, and I am in raeg, for sure. I had thought him a little stuffy about some shit, but this has incensed me.

I thought about most rapes being committed by known people, but I wasn't sure if date rape numbers might make the "dressed for it" douchenozzles feel they had a point.

Man, I want to go take part in a slutwalk.

380 to 80 to 81.

We pick up 81 around Scranton, and you're completely correct. Even heading up into NY State there, you're out of luck. Sucks.

I don't give a flying fuck what the numbers say. "She was asking for it" is a bullshit defense that puts the blame on the victim. If someone leaves their front door unlocked, does that mean anyone who walks in and steals shit is not a criminal? If the douchenozzle you're talking to wears a Rolex, is he "asking" to get mugged, and therefore unable to prosecute?

Grandmothers get raped, kids get raped, prostitutes get raped, women get raped by their husbands, men get raped in prison (and elsewhere, to be clear). There is no "asked for it."

*ahem* Hello, choir, pardon the sermon.

ita, I totally came across a product similar to that you linked to the other day, and had to share it with someone else, and we agreed it was way weirder/grosser than a fake peen, and I'm still not 100% sure why.

Also, there's a slut walk here tomorrow, apparently, but I'm not going.

But it's really simple to counter the "you can lower your risk of being assaulted by dressing differently" if the numbers support that. I don't assign blame to the rape victim, ever, but I'm trying to assemble arguments.

I've never seen anything cited that supports that dressing scantily puts you at more risk--just the assumption that if there are increased sexual feelings on the part of men, there's increased jeopardy. So I'm curious to see if that bears out.

Yay, Theo, that is super awesome to read!

has there ever been any correlation proven between the way a woman dresses and her risk of being victim of rape or sexual assault? I mean, are the jackasses that are saying "Dressed like that, she was asking for it" contradicted by numbers?

I don't know how you'd quantify "dressing sexy."

Indeed, if police noted "sexiness of rape victim's attire" on a scale of one to ten on the police report they'd get pilloried right quick.

You could start by examining rape stats in a culture where women wear burkas or similar obscuring clothing. Also, you wouldn't need police to note the clothing. People do studies and shit all the time and do their own research. Grants are levied on less precise language than that all the time.

If you can determine that "walking like a victim" is supposed to put you at higher risk for being mugged, why wouldn't you be able to investigate this?

Unrelatedly (because everything is unrelated), why did I not know Christina Aguilera had a song about cunnilingus? Possibly because I won't let the kids stay long on my lawn.