I think people's attitudes have mostly gone beyond "she was asking for it" but this has got me thinking about when we talked about the whole idea of having to protect ourselves from rapists in Philosophy. Most of the group decided they didn't think it was fair that women's lives should be put out by having to make sure we didn't get raped...and you're right. The blame once it's happened isn't on the woman, but rapists are demonised so that potential victims are supposed to protect themselves, probably because we DO treat rapists as so inhuman that they can't control what they do. Or something.
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Date: 2005-12-01 11:27 am (UTC)