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intaglio

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2. Warning against dangerous behaviour is one thing
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 10:50 AM
Oct 2013

Warning against any behaviour, binge drinking included, because it encourages rapists is another because thing entirely. Warning in those terms encourages perpetrators, onlookers, family, friends, police, prosecutors, judges and juries to see the victim as contributing to the rape. What is worse is that it encourages the victim to see fault in themselves and so blame themselves.

If you accept warnings about binge drinking in respect of rape then why not start issuing warnings about revealing clothing or going to any party with boys or walking down a street alone or being friendly in any way with a man. Worse still it ignores the most common behaviour leading to rape - being related to the perpetrator.

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