Wearing This is Not a License to Rape

Yes, no matter how risqué this outfit may look, this doesn’t provide a license to rape and no, she’s not asking for it. While we do gather first impressions and opinions based off what a person may be wearing or how they present themselves, it doesn’t tell the whole story and doesn’t provide the complete picture of a person.

With that being said, you can’t simply look at a woman in an outfit like this and say, “Oh, she’s asking for it” or “She had what was coming to her.” At the end of the day, rape is a serious and terrible crime that no one should have to endure and should never be taken lightly.

It’s time to stop condoning rape and dismissing it by blaming the victim and condoning this rape culture where “boys will be boys” or “men can’t help themselves.” This lenient and dismissive attitude isn’t helping anyone, especially not men.

Yes, study after study have shown that men have sex on the brain quite a bit and anecdote after anecdote further supports that theory. However, men aren’t mindless animals and brutes (hopefully) who only has to see a woman provocatively dressed, or what they presume as provocative, and think “Her clothing means she wants it, so I can take it if I want to.” Unless a woman gives you consent, it’s rape, plain and simple and it’s not okay.

And women have to stop encouraging this behavior as well. Don’t feel the need to be submissive and agree with a man to make him feel that you’re on his side and that you’re different by bashing another woman whose clothing you might not agree with by saying, “Oh, she’s just a ho, she deserves it.” Or “I’m too classy for something like and wouldn’t wear it, so I’m better than her and she’s beneath me.” You’re just further validating that women subconsciously ask for it. Just because you wouldn’t wear this particular outfit doesn’t mean that you might not wear something else that could be seen as provocative and somebody else could perceive as “You’re asking for it.”

At the end of the day, no means no, don’t take something that doesn’t belong to you, don’t keep condoning the boys will be boys mentality and don’t say people asked for it.

You may think she’s a ho for wearing this, but there are plenty of hoes around you in conservative clothing, but none of them deserved to be raped. After all, provocative is in the eye of the beholder.

The outfit in the picture below was seen as provocative to some people and was seen as “asking for it.”

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