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Old 02-21-2020, 09:37 AM   #94
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
So one article from January 1, 2009 now over a decade old. And another article which is at least 2 years (there's no date WebMD just archives 2 year old articles though the only year given as a citation of crime stats is 2004) with such gems as:


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Submitting to an attack because of fear does not prevent it, says Farrenkopf. He says surveys and anecdotal evidence show the difference between rapists who have completed rape and those who have attempted it is their victims' reaction. "In the completed rape, the victim usually froze and submitted," he says. "In the attempted rape, the victim fought, resisted, and escaped."
BRILLIANT if you run away from your rapist you have a better chance of not being raped. What this sheer GENIUS advice fails to grasp is that more often than not victims are unable to flee for any of many reasons. I'd also like to smack the person who even had to consider the stats of those who "submitted" (which is a gross use of the term here), vs those who ran.

And on speaking of criminals,

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"They ask themselves, 'Does this person look attackable? Does this person look vulnerable? Can I get away with something here?'"
The article is also littered with more fear mongering, and pushes more on to the victim and would be victim that they must be responsible for deterring the actions of someone else.

What's next? Are you going to give us an article about how in order to avoid rape women shouldn't dress provocatively (though the webMD article does allude to that fairly directly)?

A laughable idea since rape has existed in cultures where societal norms dictated being covered from head to toe. I guess those women just had noses that screamed out to men.
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