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Originally Posted by SebC

I didn't read the whole study, the links I found had paywalls.

Sure. But that would still make those things risk factors.

So your suggestion then is for women to just not do things that puts them in proximity to rapists? I guess if black people would do a better job of covering up their blackness, maybe they wouldn't have to deal with so much racism, right?

Ultimately I'm not an expert on the risk factors nor would I claim to be. But what I vehemently disagree with is the notion that studying, advertising risk factors and/or even advising people to avoid risks makes one a rape apologist, morally reprehensible, or a bad person. In attempting to shame or censor those people you and others like you are actually making the world more dangerous for potential victims.

Except you need to prove that these things are actually significant risk factors if you're going to say it's a woman's responsibility not to be raped. Furthermore, why is the onus on women to adjust their behaviour so that men won't rape them? Why are we not addressing the cultural attitudes that make men thing rape is acceptable (such as victim-blaming).

If every single woman started dressing in modest clothing do you think rape rates would actually go down? What about if all women gave up drinking? Do you realize what a myopic, patriarchal, and ethnocentric viewpoint that is?

Would you not tell children to look both ways before crossing the street?

Ridiculous analogy. Children aren't expected to behave differently than anyone else when crossing the street. We also don't have an epidemic of people trying to run over kids.

I think there is something to be said for educating women on the tactics of manipulation and coercion employed by rapists vs. telling them why it's their fault they were raped.