I was told to do some reading so I may be enlightened.
I did. What I found was this...
In spite of protestations to the contrary, women should also be advised that the way they dress can put them at risk. In the past, most discussions of female appearance in the context of rape have, entirely unfairly, asserted that a victim's dress and behavior should affect the degree of punishment meted out to the rapist: thus if the victim was dressed provocatively, she "had it coming to her" -- and the rapist would get off lightly. But current attempts to avoid blaming the victim have led to false propaganda that dress and behavior have little or no influence on a woman's chances of being raped. As a consequence, important knowledge about how to avoid dangerous circumstances is often suppressed. Sure-ly the point that no woman's behavior gives a man the right to rape her can be made with-out encouraging women to overlook the role they themselves may be playing in compromising their safety.
Until relatively recently in Europe and the United States, strict social taboos kept young men and women from spending unsupervised time together, and in many other countries young women are still kept cloistered away from men. Such physical barriers are understandably abhorrent to many people, since they greatly limit the freedom of women. But the toppling of those barriers in modern Western countries raises problems of its own. The common practice of unsupervised dating in cars and private homes, which is often accompanied by the consumption of alcohol, has placed young women in environments that are conducive to rape to an extent that is probably unparalleled in history. After studying the data on the risk factors for rape, the sex investigators Elizabeth R. Allgeier and Albert R. Allgeier, both of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, recommended that men and women interact only in public places during the early stages of their relationships -- or, at least, that women exert more control than they generally do over the circumstances in which they consent to be alone with men.
Randy Thornhill is an evolutionary biologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Craig T. Palmer is an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. This article was adapted from their forthcoming book, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, which is being published in April by MIT Press.
With that being said
Should this forum stop post's that are "upsetting" to a few members. Or should they take a more responsible approach to it's current and not yet joined female members in teaching opposing opinions that would go further to help protect them from putting themselves in compromising positions?
I would like to add that i am not insensitive to the feelings of these women that protest about this opinion.
I, as an adult, can see that current politically correct positions do little to make women aware that there are defensive strategies out there than can protect them.
And, ultimately, is that not what FF women want... more knowledge that gives them more control over their lives?
Or shall we keep them in the dark?
