Don't get the wrong idea. I completely agree. However, in the current political climate, saying or suggesting that a woman should show any degree of judgment in what they wear or how they act is viewed as victim-blaming. It's viewed as a "she was asking for it" type of criticism of the victim. I don't think that's right, but that's reality in the current climate. And of course, talk if chivalry would be attacked as "perpetuating the patriarchy."
Of course, all you have to do to turn this on its head is change the ethnicity or religion of the attacker to an Arabic or Islamic man. I see that over here routinely. German women are encouraged to wear clothes that do not "tempt" Muslim men and to stay out of their areas. Gotta love intersectionality.
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