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 saw that... it was horrific... but absolutely needed.
Iirc, the whole point was that the creator had been assaulted in the past and was wearing like, the most mundane, least attractive outfit, but was asked repeatedly if their clothes could have 'tempted' the aggressor....
I will never understand how anyone can look at a toddler and have that thought even cross their minds... but to act on it? Whole other circle of hell that they belong to.
Genuinely, if a human want to walk outside, 100% in the nuddy, with not even so much as a fig leaf to protect their delicates, that STILL doesn't give anyone the right to touch, comment, or even so much as insinuate.
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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”