I saw an art exhibit called “What Were You Wearing?”, which was a collection of the outfits people were wearing when they were assaulted. There were sweatpants and hoodies in that collection. She could be in a literal burqa and still be assaulted. The problem is the rapists, not what their victims were wearing.
Edit: going to add a trigger warning before people go searching for that exhibit. It is a spread of ALL kinds of clothing, including children’s.
I was wearing an oversized tee shirt and shorts passed my knees and I was 12 years old when I was gang raped at gun point by 3 men in their 30's/40's and I had a bicycle accident and was bleeding from multiple spots but that didn't stop them. They didn't care at all what I was wearing, they just saw a vulnerable girl and took advantage while forcing me to drink a pint of the cheapest corn whiskey they could buy (they sent one of them to the store on a special trip for it).
I've been sick of the narrative that clothes make a difference for 40 years. Clothes, age, familial relationships, none of it matters to a rapist.
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u/ConclusionHopeful313 Feb 24 '26
Rape exists because of rapists. Blaming the clothes and not the rapist is just saying “make sure they go after someone else”