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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "provocative" clothing
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 12:36:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 12:36:26 1985
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> REFERENCES:  <734@oddjob.UUCP>, <193@timeinc.UUCP>
> 
> 	It still seems that men(and probably lots of women) confuse
> the act of rape with something resembling sex. You have to get away
> from this mental block. It just isn't so. When you consider the
> number of just plain women who are raped(women who are minding their
> own business, women who are dressed in unassuming clothes, older
> women who are being far from provocative) you suddenly realize
> that rapes are not commited because the woman was "asking for it."
> The only thing the women did to ask for it in most cases of rape
> is be born a women. That is all. 
> 	Throwing in all this stuff about provocative clothes only
> confuses the issue. It throws the responsibility of rape back at
> the woman. "Well, look at the way she was dressed. Anyone would
> want to jump her bones!" Unfortunately, the fact that you may want
> to jump her bones has absolutely nothing to do with rape. It is
> an act of domination and that is all. 
> 
> Sharon Badian	ihnp4!mtgzz!seb

If you read what people have been writing, rather than what you *think*
they are writing, you would realize that no one here is claiming that 
provocative dress is "asking for it", and no one here is claiming
that *most* rape is the result of provocative dress.  The only assertion
is that provocative dress may push *a few* rapists over the edge;
it would be safest to avoid trouble, just like I avoid trouble by not
walking through Watts at night.