If you don't want your house broken into, you don't advertise on Craigslist for a housesitter to watch over your very pricy valuables while you're gone for two weeks.
If you don't want your car stolen, you don't park it in a crap neighborhood with the keys in the ignition and the windows down.
If you don't want to get audited, you don't do anything to red flag the IRS.
I could go on. But sure, anyone could get raped. Anyone could get mugged. Anyone could get robbed. Anyone could get audited.
But there are things you can do to lower the risk. That is just common sense, and I stand by it.
Rape is not a crime of some guy wanting to have sex with a pretty woman and deciding to “take” what they want. It is a crime of absolute control, power, anger, torment, and fear. Of course, there are things a person can do to reduce their chance of being a victim. However, when American woman have to start wearing burkas... we’ve lost. When American woman start wearing skirts to their ankles on a daily basis, we’ve lost. I wear shorts during the summer and I’m not going to hide behind some “ideal” appropriate style of dress in 95 degree heat. Years ago, my high school principal (a nun) was raped. A middle aged woman wearing a habit/nun dress down past her knees. The idea of a man breaking into the convent/connected to the school... on a Saturday evening was not a crime of lust. It was a crime of violence and torture. I will never blame the victim. I will, however, blame the criminal and I wish they could have their little “packages” removed once and for all and thrown into prison to rot.