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I wonder what people think about this anti rape campaign poster launched by West Mercia Police… which they have subsequently apologised for…. at first I wondered why the apology?…. but then thinking about it… surely the campaign should be aimed at men….
Don’t let a good night turn into a regret … featuring a man in handcuffs maybe?
Women should take precautions about their safety…. but lets not forget they are the victims … this add sort of suggests its her own fault…. shame … or maybe you think to some extent it is?
Any thoughts?
personally I think it was a stupid idea………..stupid because it’s not just women that get raped………need to thinking outside the bubble in the 21st century.
@tinks wrote:
personally I think it was a stupid idea………..stupid because it’s not just women that get raped………need to thinking outside the bubble in the 21st century.
So true…. I hadn’t considered that.
Hmmm mixed feelings on this one.
Yes there should be more done to address the potential rapist than the potential victim and I think your idea of the man in handcuffs is good. When we talk about other crimes that harm others, e.g. drink-driving, we don’t tell pedestrians or other drivers to take precautions against being harmed by a drink-driver, we show the drink-driver the possible repercussions.
However…if you go out into any town late on a Friday or Saturday night you will see many young women highly inebriated, barely able to walk, talk or focus, wearing the skimpiest of clothes…they couldn’t make themselves an easier target and their friends are all in exactly the same state.
So yes, there should be more aimed at men, but at the same time young women also need to be reminded of their responsibility for their personal safety.
I agree with Jen-Jen.
I do think that girls should be more aware of there actions. For example, Ive personaly seen mates of mine (males) beeing “teasd” all night from girls.
Girls wearing next to nothing and flirting outragously with guys, getting them to buy them drink all night with the promice of somthing sexual happing at the end of the night only for them to blank the guy at the end of the night.
Now in no way am I saying a girl like this is “asking to be raped”, but to a point I belive that in cases like this the girl should take some ownership of her actions.
Ok, I know that sounds like im saying she walked her self into that.
There is no excuse to justify a rape. EVER!But I would love to ask girls who “tease” blokes like that what there agenda is?
What do they expect the bloke to do?
again…No excuse for rape.
But I sapose the point im trying to make is these kind of girls need to put the shoe on the other foot.
Ive seen this kind of behavour from both sides.Ive seen girls in night clubs plouging guys with drink in the hope to “seduse” them.
And some how thats social acceptable :?I sapose if you read between the lines there is a message there for guys……Dont buy a girl drinks all night in the hope that your gona bed her later.
I do feel sorry for guys of this behavour. They are put on a promice the whole night only to be treated like crap in the click of a finger.I don’t care how provocatively a man or woman is dressed or how much flirting or teasing they do they do not deserve to be raped.
Anyone who rapes someone does so because they cannot control their sexual urges and therefore they are not safe to have on the streets.
I agree.
And in an ideal world a girl should be able to wear what she wants and not have to think if her outfit is going to end in a rape.But sadly, in the world we live in, there are guys out there that are mentaly unstable and can not controll there urges.
You cant tell by looking at sombody if they are going to rape you or not.
Actually, you could be living with a bloke for years and still not know that he is capable of rape.The point im trying to make is, Girls have a responsabilty for there own saftey.
They cant rely on the social acceptance that rape is wrong.
Thats not going to prevent anything.
In my opinion, If a girl is wearing next to nothing and teasing a bloke all night and promising him a sexual incounter with the agenda of blanking him at the end of the night, she has put her own life in danger.
Im not trying to justfiy the actions of a rapist.And Im not going to apolagise for my opinion.
But girls have a responsabilty to look out for there own saftey.
Unfortunatly is the world we live in.@panda12 wrote:
I don’t care how provocatively a man or woman is dressed or how much flirting or teasing they do they do not deserve to be raped.
Anyone who rapes someone does so because they cannot control their sexual urges and therefore they are not safe to have on the streets.
No one deserves to be raped.
No one deserves to be burgled.
No one deserves to be mugged…and so on.The fact that you don’t deserve it doesn’t mean that you don’t take precautions.
You lock your house and make it as secure as you can against burglars.
You do your best to avoid muggers by not walking in a dodgy neighbourhood or wearing your diamonds and pearls to do the weekly shopping and you don’t carry an open handbag with your purse on show.
You do your best to avoid rapists by not wearing next to nothing, then drinking all night and flirting and making promises then getting so out of your head that you can’t defend yourself or scream for help.No one deserves to be raped, burgled, mugged, murdered, but there are people out there who would commit those crimes so in turn we need to take sensible precautions.
Incidentally, rape is rarely connected to sexual urges…but that’s another thread in its own right.
Funny how this thread should be here this morning, then this afternoon a regular customer has come in and told me about a friend of hers who was raped last week. None of the above applied and it’s a distressing story…the guy is out on bail but is obviously seriously disturbed.
Ladies (and gentlemen, you’re not immune either) watch your drinks, even if you’re not drinking alcohol…nuff said.
Rape is not about sex.. it is about violence
Violence against women is never acceptable.
Rape whether the victim is male or female is degrading, humiliating, frightening and very very scary. The victims NEVER forget.Saying that a woman (or man) is “asking for it” by flirting is saying that rape is ok. Because, if there is ANY reason at all for it to be considered ok, then someone intent on rape will use that as an excuse to assuage any feelings of guilt they may have. Because.. its the victim’s fault, not theirs.. the victim deserved it.
He or She was drunk… they deserved it
He or She was dressed provocatively..they deserved it
He or She was a pr*ck teaser…. they deserved itNo one should EVER be the victim of Rape, NOBODY ever deserves that.
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