What about the women who are skeptical of policies that have the potential to put them in more danger in public settings?

Who is that “we” you are talking about? I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but “bad” behavior is considered acceptable by many.

Except that we don’t live in a society that holds men to “standards of adulthood and self-responsibility” when it comes to sexual harassment and the like.

The problem is with a man who, whatever his “natural” impulse (per Badu) to feel attracted to adolescent girls, does not somehow choose/manage to control his behavior.

Except that longer skirts are not burkas.

I wouldn’t. Why are you asking?

Sure. How do you propose we do that?

No I’m not. You’re missing my point on purpose.

The statements “a girl/woman is not responsible for being harassed, raped” and “men will use a girl’s/woman’s appearance and behavior to justify their actions” are not contradictory. I do not live in a perfect world where everybody holds perpetrators accountable for their actions and never blames victims. Maybe you…

Except that this is constantly happening in the first world. Are you going to claim that people don’t judge a woman’s sexual willingness by the way she’s dressed in the fist world?

Okay, but we are talking about school here, which has a completely different dynamic.

No. I think that you’re wearing rose-colored glasses because you’re under the impression that everyone believes what you believe in.

And is that working...?

What’s your solution to the problem then?

Do you honestly think that girls are safe now? Answer me truthfully, please.

But the school is not enforcing burkas, is it? As long as it’s enforcing something victims have a better chance at getting some sort of justice.

Please take off your rose-colored glasses and take a good look around you.

I don’t. Grown men do.

I’m sorry it happened to your child.

No? But it would make the excuse “she was dressed provocatively” harder to use to discredit to the victim and let the perpetrator of the hook.