| Umm... uhh...
No.
The arguments you present come from a patriarchal victorian "virgin/whore" dualism. One in which "good girls" stay under their father's thumb in the basement in a burkha until they're sold off in marriage, and anything that happens to anything else is "okay" because "she wask asking for it."
It's this shit that's created the lifelong victimhood of "damaged goods" - which is frankly bullshit. Rape is fucked up, it does NOT mean that the person who was raped is "worthless" or "ruined" or has "lost her purity," or any of the other psychobabble bullshit which basically amounts to "fuck you bitch, you got raped."
Let's see... what are some of the examples you gave of a rapists' justification under this virgin/whore binary bullshit?
>Do some women dress to provocative or sexy - does that encourage rape?
I wonder - if a woman puts on a dress in a nudist colony, is she "asking for it" because she started wearing clothes?
Okay, I'll admit, it's a facetious mockery... but for fucks sake, "I'll rape your ass if you aren't in a burkha in a fundamentalist society" is frankly one of the sickest threats their is, and also has a social outcome I'd rather not see. Facist Islamotheocracy (like the US homegrown version which perverts christianity) may or may not be a good place to visit. I certainly do not want to live there, and I sure as HELL don't want people to go out and rape people to MAKE me live there.
>Some women pose naked for money for publication - does that encourage rape?
No, but I don't want you threatening to rape people if I don't censor my porn, either.
>Some women flirt with everyone in a teasing manner - does that encourge rape?
Dude? *I* flirt with people I'll never schlup. And if they end up trying to rape me, they'll end up with problems using their windpipe.
In fact, I *only* flirt with people I *don't* schlup.
And no, you have no right to rape me if I don't change my culture to match yours, either.
Throughout the ages, rape has been a weapon of enforcement of a repressive and facist culture. Dress how we tell you, or you deserve it. Speak how we tell you, or you deserve it. Submit to your inferiority to males, or you deserve it.
...and if someone rapes you anyway? Then, you're damaged goods, and too worthless to be sold into marriage - so you deserve it anyways.
Frankly, it's one of the more fucked-up means of social control ever invented, and I for one reject the construction entirely. |