As a side effect, the sharks got smarter.

I don't think so. Aniston may still be painted as a victim but the media has always made it very clear that the only villain in that situation was Man-Stealing Man-Eating Mantis Jolie. I never saw Pitt catch any real flack for it.

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This is not your fault. It is not your fault. I cannot stress that enough. You were not able to give consent — if you had given any consent in this situation it would have been invalid due to your blood alcohol level. I would suggest contacting RAINN for advice and support. I am so very sorry this happened to you and…

The language we use to talk about rape is key. We cannot risk contributing to the culture of victim blaming with clumsy wording. When you use words like 'responsibility' and 'job' you are inviting the concept of fault. And besides, my point was never that we shouldn't be aware of our surroundings — it's that when…

Here's the bottom line: if your first response to an article on the motives and reasoning of rapists is to try to put the focus straight back on what rape victims can do to stop rape then that is a problem.

Very well put.

I was quoting you back to yourself (You don't feel that it is your job to protect yourself from all crime?), and questioning why you feel the need to defend commenters like the OP whose first and only response to the topic of rape is to talk about what the victims should do to stop it.

No, I do not. That is not my job. If you call it my job, if you say to any woman that it is her job to prevent her own rape, then you are putting the responsibility on her and directly contributing to the problem of rape culture. Whenever our society, our politicians and lawmakers, our police, our media, talk about…

Fucking yahtzee. Thank you.

No, not good enough. I've been drunk out of my mind more times than I can count but I've still, somehow, magically, managed not to rape anybody. Oh, it's because a decent person is prevented from becoming a rapist by more than just their inhibitions.

Nicely put.

Yes, but the response of the police, of the media, of politicians, of parents to the problem of rape culture is, overwhelmingly, to tell women and girls what they should be doing to not get raped. How we should curb our behaviour, how we should dress, who we should trust. There's really very little emphasis indeed on…

I am reading exactly what you wrote. It is your wording that I have a problem with, regardless of your intent. When you make it our "job" to not get raped you play into a culture that already blames the victim.

Lauren86 stated that it is a woman's job to protect herself. Her job - as in her responsibility. Thus, if she is not able to protect herself then she has failed at her job.

When you say that it is a woman's job to protect herself from rape you explicitly put responsibility on her shoulders and thus imply that being raped is at least in part a result of her failure to live up to that responsibility. If that's not what you meant, and I damn well hope it isn't, then I suggest you be more…

No. It is not our "job" to prevent rape. If a woman is raped, it is not because she has been doing her "job" wrong. Put the responsibility on those who deserve it: rapists. No exceptions.

Whenever I read "Madonna has an anti-aging machine", my mind translates it as "Madonna has a time machine". I refuse to look at photos of Madonna wearing her "anti-aging machine" because I already know it looks like a metalic arm guard covered in switches and dials and LEDs. I've never questioned it; it makes perfect…

Just stand on the right side of the Tube escalator and walk on the left. Stand on the right and walk on the left. Walk. Walk on the left. No, don't stand in the middle. NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

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