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Let's play a game of Blame the Victim. I'll start: a woman goes out, has a few drinks, is feeling drunk, and suddenly a man comes along and rapes her. Who gets the blame? If you said the rapist you would be wrong.

More Rapes Linked To Young Women On Drinking Binges


That's the headline given to an article about the number of rapes in San Diego going up. It's not that more men are committing rape, or that rapists are getting away with repeat assaults, or even the more positive outlook that more rapes are being reported. Nope, it's those silly girls getting drunk and getting themselves raped.

From the story:

"The majority are young women who start out in bars or at a house party and end up drinking too much," Kendrick told the newspaper. "They can't consciously make a good decision, like say no and leave. Or maybe they've had too much to drink and can't leave."

Right, because having the audacity of being a woman, drinking, and in a place where there are rapists is really just a matter of making the wrong decision. Everyone knows that if you just tell your rapist no he'll let you get up and leave, it's just that the women are too drunk to do that.

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How about that more men are targeting women drinking in bars or parties. Which really isn't that surprising given the way rape cases are handled today. If a woman drinks too much she not only has to worry about being raped, but also that the judge will decide if she was too drunk to walk she was also too drunk to say no. Rather than ruling more harshly against the rapists who take advantage of woman who are intoxicated the women are punished for doing the drinking, sending the not-so-subtle message that "good girls" stay at home and wash their hair rather than leave the house and behave like everyone else is. And of course if you're not a good girl then it's not really rape/it's totally your fault.


One good thing is that from this San Diego's rape numbers should decrease. Not that the number of actual rapes will go down, just that more women will choose not to report them for fear of how they will be treated when it's discovered that their ankles were showing.

Image source - Brenna Lorenz, Martin Walls
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