This is from the slut walk. One of the arguments is that girls ask for rape because they wear slutty clothes, short skirts, tight, low-cut tops. This girl is an example of the fact that rape victims can look like anyone, you, me, this girl. Rapists. Dont. Discriminate.
I promised a long time ago that I’d reblog this whenever I saw it on my dash. No regrets, it breaks my heart every single time.
an incredibly important message, rape is rape. no one is ever asking for it. a woman has the right to dress how ever they want - it is society that identifies risque dressing as ‘asking for it’, and in my opinion, that way of thinking needs to be diminished.
Always, always reblog.
Doesn’t matter what your blog is about. Forever reblog.
Reblogging for around the 100th time
This. Just… this!
You know what the really heartbreaking thing is? Some girls actually BELIEVE that it’s THEIR FAULT if they dress a certain way. I was in class once, back in college for Women’s Studies, and we were reading a story about this woman on a very long road trip. In the middle of the trip she decided to take off her bra (under her shirt, so no one could see her do it) because, you know, 12 hours? Driving? Yeah, she wanted to be comfortable. She went into a gas station, wearing a flannel shirt and jeans, and some creep decided to not only follow her out of the gas station, but when she drove off he followed her in his car.
One of the girls said, and I quote, “She should’ve been wearing a bra.”
All of us stared at her, including my teacher – who was normally pretty laid back but I could tell by the look on her face that she wanted to flip out on this girl, but forced herself to keep it inside since, you know, she’s the teacher.
But… really? Should’ve been wearing a bra? So even underwear constitutes rape now? So what, if someone breaks into some woman’s house while she’s sleeping and rapes her, you’re going to say, “Well if she had a bra on under my nightshirt…"Every time I see the whole "Short skirt = rape” argument I think of that story, because… really? Honestly? But the scary part is that that conversation in class showed me that it’s not just men who think like that, but women do too. Maybe not that many (GOD I hope not that many) but, just hearing it from one girl was scary enough to me.
But this picture right here says it all. It’s not about the clothes you wear at all. Rape is rape. It’s terrible, no matter how you’re dressed, or where you’re walking at night, or anything like that.