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Poll: Does a persons clothing effect the risk of sexual assult/harassmentYes (115) 86% No (10) 7% Unsure (9) 7% 134 total votes Your vote: Does a persons clothing effect the risk of sexual assult/harassment (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): Unsure
Recently a Toronto police officer said "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to avoid being victimized."
This sparked anger among many who felt he was blaming victims of sexual assault and led to a protest called "SlutWalk"
While I understand and agree that victims of such crimes are not "responsible" or "deserving" or "asking for" these things to happen. The questions remains are people exposing themselves to additional risk by dressing in certain ways?
This is not meant to discuss the officer his comment or the protest only one of the ideas coming from those events please everyone stay classy.
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I really do believe so, if you dress in slutty clothes it might aswell arouse a desperate man that happens to look at you. It won't be the whole cause but it might just be the last push he needs to go over the line.
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If there are two attractive women walking in a park at night, one with a bikini on and one with a winter coat on.....
I voted yes.
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its situational i guess,
in a room by themselves? no
in a club, guys be dry humpin all over them booty shorts
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Come on people. There has already been one thread closed on this subject what part of STAY CLASSY are you not understanding
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I voted yes.
And I don't believe the police officer was necessarily blaming the victims. He was giving advice on how to avoid such situations. It might prevent an assault.
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There's 2 threads up about this right now and the other one has a better OP this one should probably be closed.
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I think there is more of a correlation than a causation. At least here, pretty girls dress more slutty on average. Also, I don't think rapist will not rape someone if they are dressed less slutty, maybe if they go from slutty to something in which you can't see the difference between a guy and a girl.
edit: of course there are some rare niche cases (like 2 pretty girls next to eachother or something, but I think it has rarely any direct effect. Maybe for group rapes, because those people care less about being caught.
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I think it should be made clear that dressing provocatively or like a slut will certainly make that person appear less professional in his/ her surroundings (jokes aside, please). People will judge others based on many things, clothing included.
However, there is never a justification for rape (i.e. "She was asking for it; look how she was dressed!"), since everyone has a right to dress how they please (assuming it agrees with any given dress code), and no one has a right to force sex on another person.
Case closed.
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The old 'asking for it' theory. Sounds like a great excuse if you're a rapist.
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There is an inherent cost and benefit in any given choice. Presumably the choice to dress in a given fashion is conscious and it is not to much to extrapolate the choice is made with the goal of seeking at the very least the attention of others (otherwise why not dress in pajamas everyday). While the benefits include attention, praise and reputation, there is always the associated cost of, amongst other things, unwanted attention. Unfortunately there is no way to dress in which you only attract people you find attractive (or individuals that are safe to be around), as such any decision should be arrived at rationally with full understanding of the consequences it entails, both good and bad
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When psychopaths gets turned on - bad things happen.
So yes, choice of clothes matters.
'Normal' people would just enjoy the sight of a good body in some lowrise jeans at summer.
I'm looking forward to summer.
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Women and men should be able to dress however they feel comfortable, however, there are rude and horrible people in the world, and dressing in a provocative or revealing way will be more likely to insite these scumbags into saying something rude, or worse. Yes, a persons clothing effect the risk of sexual assult/harassment. Is this a good thing? of course not. Do they deserve it? of course not.
I'm sure you're more likely to get beat up in high school if you dress funny, it doesn't mean you deserve it, it is just that ignorant people are more likely to pick on people who are different.
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I voted yes, it just seems like common sense that dressing promiscuously is going to increase one's odds of being a target of sexual harassment
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yes because the matter of fact is, if you are dressed more exposed, it's just more likely for those things to happen
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Yes, but that does not mean that I think it should be that way.
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Funny how people jumped straight to rape... I was thinking more along the lines of slutty dressed girls getting verbally harassed/minorly assaulted (ass slaps, etc) more.
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Generally I don't care for Dave Chappelle's comedy, but I find his analogy to be spot on in this case!
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