I couldn't even watch the whole video. I lost it at "Do you have a lock on your front door." I can guess where it went from there, and please correct me if I have the wrong end of the stick, because I didn't watch the vid beyond that. But if he was about to compare leaving your door unlocked and getting robbed to "dressing provocatively" then getting raped, he can shut the fuck up until victims of burglary are routinely made to stand up in court and be asked questions to determine whether or not they deserved to be robbed, which is basically what happens to rape victims here.
Also, in my school, the girls were taken out of class occasionally to be warned about rape and how to behave and dress to avoid it, we even had kick boxing lessons. Were the boys ever taken out of class and taught about why rape is wrong? Nope. Even when a girl at my school was raped in the toilets, the girls were again taken out of classes to be told not to flirt with boys during break time. Again, the boys were never given a talk on not raping.
Sure, society is supposed to know not to rob and kill either, and they still happen. But there isn't a culture of blaming the victims of those crimes. "Oh, he got murdered? He shouldn't have been an irritating twat, what did he expect?" "Your house got robbed? That's what you get for having a nice house!" You just don't hear that kind of thing all the time. With rape, you do. All the time. Even in court, it's less about trying to prove whether or not a man raped a woman, but whether or not she deserved to be violently attacked.
I feel that I could go on and on in a long long rant about this shit, but I will stop there before I get going.
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Also, in my school, the girls were taken out of class occasionally to be warned about rape and how to behave and dress to avoid it, we even had kick boxing lessons. Were the boys ever taken out of class and taught about why rape is wrong? Nope. Even when a girl at my school was raped in the toilets, the girls were again taken out of classes to be told not to flirt with boys during break time. Again, the boys were never given a talk on not raping.
Sure, society is supposed to know not to rob and kill either, and they still happen. But there isn't a culture of blaming the victims of those crimes. "Oh, he got murdered? He shouldn't have been an irritating twat, what did he expect?" "Your house got robbed? That's what you get for having a nice house!" You just don't hear that kind of thing all the time. With rape, you do. All the time. Even in court, it's less about trying to prove whether or not a man raped a woman, but whether or not she deserved to be violently attacked.
I feel that I could go on and on in a long long rant about this shit, but I will stop there before I get going.
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