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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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)?
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I agree the article rubs me the wrong way. The title alone, "How to Avoid Being a Victim." It's been shown most victims of a crime feel guilt when they're victimized as a natural grieving stage of the process, so seeing article headlines like that certainly don't help.
The worst part may be:
Women with passive, submissive personalities are most likely to be raped—and they tend to wear body-concealing clothing, such as high necklines, long pants and sleeves, and multiple layers.
This seems to be going beyond the article that is all over the place talking about "tips" on avoiding catching the attention of people on the streets and in "dark alleys". Most women are raped by people they know and not in these hypothetical situations where it's easy to offer "tips" to avoid attention.
How are they defining passive, submissive personalities? Fearful women? Shy women? Quiet women? Uncertain women? Nervous women? If you're passive and uncertain, I'm assuming the article is telling these women to pretend to be anything but that when out and about on the "dangerous streets", yet if women are nervous and uncertain due to low self esteem or history of trauma, or natural personality, they can't just easily fall into the role of pretending to be tough, outgoing, assertive women to "lessen their chances of catching attention on being raped." Not quoted per the article word for word, but the meaning is clear here.
And perhaps they are thinking if they are quiet, they'd attract less attention that way, trying to reduce the chances of attracting predators that way. I can get that reasoning if you're trying not to attract attention to yourself.
And these women tend to wear body concealing clothes with multiple layers? Maybe they're cold? Maybe they're trying NOT to attract attention because so many say it's risky to dress to catch attention as another form of victim blaming? So now they dress the opposite and it's still part of them being the cause of catching attention?
Poor women just can't take a break with these articles and assumptions.