One person who consistently highlights these issues is bookdrunk at rhetorically speaking.
It is a truly appalling statistic. Bookdrunk has also collected some readers comments from the Daily Mail website. Some of them may make you feel quite ill.More than a third of people believe that a woman is totally or partially responsible for being raped if she has behaved in a flirtatious mannerAnd that's the culture of rape, plain and simple, that says that the victim of crime has invited that crime. Remember, this is a critique that applies to women and women alone for exhibiting behaviour that would never be used to criticise a male victim of crime.
I'd also recommend reading this excellent post by Emma at gendergeek (via bookdrunk).
Apologist attitudes to rape should not be allowed to go unchallenged. There is no excuse.
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