Can inappropriate clothing ever be a valid reason for rape?

Question

Do you think it is?

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

Asking this question means you don't understand the role that clothing can play in such crimes.

Rape is always a crime. To commit rape, one must be willing to break the law - in this case, one of the most serious laws - which is not only wrong on moral grounds but also potentially comes with severe penalties. As a rule, the type of person who would do this is not a moral person at all, and completely lacks empathy for others. In nearly all cases, they understand that rape is a serious crime but either believe it shouldn't be or they believe that they are above the law. Such people are incredibly dangerous. Most of them would not hesitate to maim or murder either.

Nothing could justify these crimes to any moral person or system. But these people don't believe such rules apply to them. This is either because they are mentally defective, or because they were raised with incredibly corrupt values.

What most people fail to understand is that such people are already looking for an excuse (what in their minds is "justification") to hurt people. Their values are warped and sick, and not representative of the vast majority of people.

But to these sick and dangerous people, revealing clothes is justification for rape, just as visible signs of wealth are justification for robbery and indications of a different religion are justification for violence, potentially including murder. To these criminals, these things may be justification, but western societies (which are based on Judeo-Christian values) certainty does not.

The problem is that people forget that such western values are not always the rules in force depending on where you are and when you are there.

We all know that there are dangerous areas in most large cities - places where western values are barely taught and rarely embraced. But these dangerous areas tend to expand significantly in the dark of night. For example, many convenience stores are reasonably safe during the day, but draw in a criminal element later at night who tend to loiter and cause trouble. The areas around nightclubs often are the same way - safe in the day but far more dangerous at night.

One of the reasons lights always have spider webs around them is because bugs are drawn to the light at night, and the spiders see that as an opportunity to eat. Likewise, convenience stores and nightclubs work the same way for criminals - they provide a big source of potential victims, many who are tired, maybe drunk or high, and overall not at their best to defend themselves.

Tight or revealing clothing is one of the things such criminals use to target victims, and in some cases, to justify their victimization. Society isn't making that justification, the criminals are - society is merely recognizing this fact and warning people of that fact. That's not at all the same as endorsing the justification of those criminals - rather it's the recognition that the best way to deal with crime is to avoid being a victim in the first place.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

In order to rape you must have mommy and daddy issues, 100% all of the time.

ShellyB · Accepted Answer

No never. But I think people are too quick to draw hard lines and then want to argue one way or the other. To me it’s like locking your car or locking the front door of your house. If you don’t lock your door are you asking to be robbed? No of course not, it is still the robber’s fault if they break in and rob you. But it is usually smart to lock the door, imagine if somebody said "you should lock your front door" and people got angry like, are you victim-blaming me for not locking my front door? That isn't the point it is just something to consider because the world is not perfect. JMO!

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Most rapes don't happen after night club visits but on girls who walk after work home in normal clothes on normal schedule.
Most rapists prepare their crime to specific time and place, what has nothing to do with clothes choice of the victim.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I don't know anyone who believes that inappropriate dress means a girl deserves to be raped. But if I had a teen girl and she wanted to play with boys naked in the back yard while i was at work, I would certainly not allow her to do that.

OneViewpoint · Answer

Only if you're mentally unstable and violent. No sane person with a healthy adult personality ever saw legs or cleavage and said to themselves, she's got it coming. That is criminal insanity territory. People like that cannot process the word "NO" with grace and civility.

And "inappropriate clothing" is a completely subjective judgement based on the observer's opinion which is commonly fueled by bullshit religious delusion. Sorry but you don't get to determine what is appropriate and inappropriate for everyone else.

RavVid · Answer

I doubt it is a cause at all despite the prevalence of suggestions it is. Short skirts, tight cleavage tops are not exactly unusual and quite commonly seen in the wild.

Inappropriate conduct could be. I do remember a rape trial where the girl said she and the guy where just having a bit of fun but the guy thought it was more than a bit.

It is quite possible that the guy is having consensual sex whilst the girl is being raped simply because girls can go into a freeze response. In some jurisdictions the girl is not obliged to say STOP/NO.

So it is quite possible the guy does think it is consensual while the girl considers herself as being raped.

Shoichiro · Answer

Any sensible human being would take actions to avoid an undesirable event, even if they are not the ones at fault if that event happens.

For example, if you knew a murderer had a gun and was coming around the corner, you would probably hide. If you didn't hide and you got shot, then the fault you made was not taking preventative measures. But for some reason, this common-sense way of thinking is completely dismissed when we're discussing women and rape.

It is very obvious that the primary reason many women wear revealing clothes is for male attention, but they are also aware that there are rapists among those men, but for some reason they still decide to go out wearing hyper-revealing outfits. If they don't take preventative measures by covering up, then that is their fault and they are therefore not innocent of their specific contribution. The rapist is at fault for the separate action of doing the rape.

msc545 · Answer

We actually need some research about this. I can imagine a study in which some women dress very scantily and others very conservatively and record. How many are approached by vicious criminals intending to assault them? It's admittedly a very risky idea, but seriously, if you wanted to answer this question, you would need to design a very careful study. In the breach, assuming the clothes have. Nothing to do with being raped. You have implicitly given permission to women to dress as they want and that is the whole point of even asking this question. It doesn't matter to those who think this is a good idea what the actual effect of clothing is and none of us really know because it has never been an adequately measured and I suspect it never will be. What it comes down to is those who think that giving complete freedom to women to dress as they want is more important than possibly informing them about a potential risk factor for being raped.

emeraldsaphire · Answer

omg this can't be a real question. 😅 Dude, I could be 100% naked or in full fetish gear; that doesn't mean you can just rape me. Clothing isn't consent

Zack-Bann · Answer

What the actual hell.
Of course not.
Even school boys know that by now.

The one thing I’ll say is that personal safety is also a personal responsibility.

Meaning that a woman wearing the skimpiest outfit and walking in the shadiest part of town on her own and unarmed: is needlessly putting herself in grave danger.
Doesn’t mean it’s suddenly ok to assault her.
But creeps will always exist, so there’s no point in inviting them to try

Levin · Answer

Only scumbags would make those kinds of arguments.

But realistically, Western women need to take care of themselves because they have imported a lot of the problems, with the policies that they themselves endorse, into their former high trust societies.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

No, not at all. Let's be real though; there's just no way that provocative clothing isn't having some kind of effect. The purpose of the clothing is to entice. It only stands to reason that clothing designed to showcase your sexuality is going to make people want to have sex with you.

That being said, the people who are inclined to do something like that probably aren't going to hold off on committing a rape because their victim was dressed modestly.

loveslongnails · Answer

There's an awful lot of words in some responses to express the simple answer that Abbycado did: NO... NEVER.

What's "inappropriate clothing" anyway? It doesn't matter. To a rapist, clothing or the lack thereof is not the trigger, it's the excuse. A rapist will attack a woman no matter if she's in a bikini, a business suit, or a burka.

Staximus · Answer

Just because she goes out looking like she wants to fuck does not mean she wants to fuck you. I don’t know why this is such a hard concept to grasp. If you think it’s a valid excuse then you should be raped and then let me know how you feel about it.

Still-alive · Answer

Anyone who thinks this is is sorely mistaken or taking part in rape apologia

Lliam · Answer

No. Even if she's walking around naked, rape can never be justified. Rape is violence. There should be extreme penalties for rapists.

strateguy632 · Answer

never. what happened? when she said 'no stop' he continued. but judges are too lenient. a civilization would deter them.

Agape93 · Answer

Nope. Anyone that disagrees is welcome to try me. I'll fucking kill em, they were asking for it because of their clothes too.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Good luck to anyone using this strategy to plead 😂

LiamJHayden · Answer

Even is she is nude that is not a valid excuse.

Ariesman81Nshiiit · Answer

Yes. If she's wearing something like this she is begging to get impregnated.

Anonymous · Answer

A valid reason?😆 Is this a serious question? Since when is there ever a valid reason to rape someone?  Now if you's asked "is inappropriate clothing ever trigger for a rapist". That i could see.

888theGreat · Answer

Nope , but it does cause sexual aggression by males. Men think they are lose and sexual. Men should still not rape her.

_piotr · Answer

It can be a reason, but it will never be a "valid reason".

fishbone77 · Answer

This reads like a meme that's never really happened.

Kvass · Answer

You're Indian, we get it.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Only in  your  type of countries.

valentina4eva · Answer

wthhhhhhh😨😨

jazzy34 · Answer

No. It is not, you fucking creep. -__-

canamlusciouslad73 · Answer

A MILLION TIMES NO !!!

Abbycado · Answer

Nope.

Badtobad · Answer

Never

lilBigPotato · Answer

No, never.

MereAnarchy · Answer

WTF is wrong with you.

TonyMetal___1986 · Answer

Nope!

Alex-Snow · Answer

Never never never

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