RE: Objectifying women
July 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2010 at 6:58 pm by In This Mind.)
(July 11, 2010 at 6:51 pm)Saerules Wrote: River of posts! ^_^
In This Mind Wrote:There is nothing women can do to avoid being raped. The problem isn't that women wear sexy clothes, it's that some men think of women as objects and view the sexy clothes as permission to touch the objects.
Statement observed.
Analyzing statement...
'There is nothing women can do to avoid being raped.'
Comparing to similar statement...
'There is nothing soldiers can do to avoid being killed.'
Error
Clothes matter... to soldiers their apparel can be life and death. To arctic dwellers as well is clothing of utmost importance (when it comes to survival). The effect of clothing upon a situation can vary from being of minimal impact to dwarfing all. As it turns out, there is a very successful market for making people appear sexually appealing to others via clothing... and wearing such clothes can at the least be expected to typically excite more sexual attraction towards the wearer than would be common for them without. As such... it is clear that clothing has some effect upon wether a person appears sexually attractive... and it is not a very large jump from there to suggest that in at least some cases: clothing choice can at times be expected to further excite a person about to rape another (and indeed... perhaps is sometimes among the core causes of why the rape took place at all, if you will note the bold in the above quote).
Dressing to avoid being cold is something you have direct control over. Since rape involves the actions and motivations of someone who isn't you, how do you have any control over it?
Joe rapes women who wear blue. Jack rapes women who wear red. Jim rapes women who don't wear anything either red or blue. So, what exactly is a woman supposed to wear?
Clothing is never the core cause of why rape took place. Ever. What is the core cause is a man's desire to degrade a woman.
And you are doing the same thing. You are degrading her by telling her she needs to dress like a frump to avoid attack. That's your version of using sex to degrade her. Either she conforms, or she risks attack. It's all about controlling the woman.
Here is the simple truth.
The only factor in whether or not a woman is sexually assaulted is whether or not she crosses paths with a man (or another woman) inclined to sexually assault her.
Period.
All else is deluded and wishful thinking on the parts of misogynists who objectify women and women who desperately want to believe it can't happen to them.