I agree that the victims of property crimes don't deserve blame for their losses, and that blame isn't helpful. I even agree that locking windows and shutting doors are reasonable precautions.
I haven't kept up with the current folklore about forms of dress, but I assure that interpreting anyone's clothing as a sexual invitation is an error. If your lover meets you at the door in sexy lingerie and a come-hither grin, the invitation is the grin.
Dressing in any one way or another does NOT make sexual assault less likely - that's a myth. Dressing in any one way or another doesn't even make it less likely that a woman will be blamed for any assault she experiences. Whatever you were wearing, they'll find a way to make it wrong. You've been ignoring people making that point all morning, which makes your current explanation that you don't know if dress makes a difference come off as disingenuous.
The correct take here is not "either/or," or "both/and", it's "both/but..."
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Date: 2013-10-04 07:19 pm (UTC)I haven't kept up with the current folklore about forms of dress, but I assure that interpreting anyone's clothing as a sexual invitation is an error. If your lover meets you at the door in sexy lingerie and a come-hither grin, the invitation is the grin.
Dressing in any one way or another does NOT make sexual assault less likely - that's a myth. Dressing in any one way or another doesn't even make it less likely that a woman will be blamed for any assault she experiences. Whatever you were wearing, they'll find a way to make it wrong. You've been ignoring people making that point all morning, which makes your current explanation that you don't know if dress makes a difference come off as disingenuous.
The correct take here is not "either/or," or "both/and", it's "both/but..."