Oh please.
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Under “no” the site says “women should be able to dress, drink and walk as they choose without fear of being blamed.”
Under “yes,” the poll says “if women drink too much, dress too little or walk in harms way, they put themselves at risk.”
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In fact, both of those statements are true. In a perfect world, what a women drinks or wears and where she goes would not increase the likelihood that she gets victimized. In the real world, those are risk factors that she controls.
If I go walking down a dark alley in a sketchy part of night, I'm not literally asking to get mugged, nor is it my fault if I do, but I certainly made my odds worse by doing what I did.
Pretending that these risk factors don't exist is actually harmful to society. People need to know about the risks they're taking.