This sort of stuff makes my blood boil.
BRISTOL, Va. – Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger’s drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: “Women & Girls” it said across the top.
“Even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly,” Canter recalled the woman telling her. “You make men want to be sinful.”
Guess Keshia was guilty of having lady parts.
“You may have been given this leaflet because of the way you are dressed,” it begins. “Have you thought about standing before the true and living God to be judged?”
“Scripture tells us that when a man looks on a woman to lust for her he has already committed adultery in his heart. If you are dressed in a way that tempts a men to do this secret (or not so secret) sin, you are a participant in the sin,” the leaflet states. “By the way, some rape victims would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. So can we really say they were innocent victims?”
The hand-out is signed “anonymous.”
Anonymous cowards. BTW, love the… btw, some rape victims would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. So can we really say they were innocent victims?”
This leaflet makes the assumption that rape only happens to women who weren’t “dressed properly” when the truth is rape happens to women of all ages, body types and clothing choices. It’s violence. And no one asks to be raped.
This leaflet is also extremely insulting to men. Yet again men are portrayed as a gender incapable of self-control – who are excused for a violent act because they have gentlemen body parts.
What’s disturbing is that this “she asked for it” defense still carries weight in society. And for anyone subscribing to this mindset do you also believe people who drive flashy cars or live in showy houses deserve to be robbed? Aren’t they just asking for it as well?