Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Treading carefully....

Outrage by women's organisations at the finding of an opinion poll that "more than a third of people" think that "flirtatious" women are partly to blame if they are raped. Have to be very careful here, being a man, but surely all we are talking about is taking responsibility for one's own actions. If I go up to a thug in a bar and start taunting him, I really have nobody but myself to blame if he thumps me. That doesn't excuse what he's done, or make it any less of an offence, but equally it doesn't exonerate my actions. And surely, that's all this poll is saying?

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