RE: Objectifying women
July 16, 2010 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2010 at 10:18 pm by In This Mind.)
(July 16, 2010 at 10:05 pm)Scented Nectar Wrote: I see a lot of defending of the opinion that women should mind their clothing, but still no proof that women who wear sexier clothing have a higher number of rapes happen to them.
Show me your statistics, anyone.
They can't and won't.
Because when you actually look at the statistics involved, they will show something very disturbing that the folks in this thread won't acknowledge.
Educating the women about sexual assault and harassment does nothing to lower the percentage of women who are the victims of sexual assault and harassment. At best, all it does is provide women the courage to report it when it does happen.
Educating the men about sexual assault and harassment does amazing things to lower the percentage of women (and of men too) who are the victims of sexual assault and harassment.
Take the workplace, for example. Making men take sexual harassment seminars and actually punishing the men who were involved in sexual harassment instead of the old-fashioned approach of telling a woman to change her behavior has helped bring down the instances of sexual harassment dramatically.