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To: sakic
Back to blame the victim mentality. Great.

Not even close. Why is it considered "blaming the victim" to point out that certain behaviors increase the risk of becoming a victim, and to recommend that those behaviors should be changed to minimize that risk?

The fact is that for a young woman to dress in a manner intended to attract the sexual attention of men, go to a party filled with young men (who already aren't the best at impulse control) and then add alcohol to the mix places her at increased risk for a sexual encounter she may later regret. Now this may or may not constitute "sexual assault" - many of the incidents regarded as rape appear to be the result of regret of a drunken encounter rather than actual rape. But even in the case of an actual assault, to argue that the woman did not increase her risk by her behavior is ludicrous. That does not mitigate the seriousness of the crime or reduce the culpability of the perpetrator. It just recognizes a reality.

65 posted on 12/19/2014 8:59:52 AM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

“The best at impulse control”. Really

I couldn’t help but rape her, your honor, she was drunk and scantily clad.

If your daughter was raped while drunk, I suppose you would say that, hey she was asking for it.


67 posted on 12/19/2014 9:20:09 AM PST by sakic
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