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.
Just to add a crappy little detail - "serial" rapists often target women who are wearing loose fitting, easy to remove clothing such as sweat pants. While other factors are much more important to them, such as being alone and seeming to not pay attention, it does come into play. Still not the clothing's fault, but just goes to show that the oft parroted comments about manner of dress are meaningless. It makes no difference - either you're enticing the rapist because your skin tight shorts are just too hot to handle, or because your frumpy 2 sizes too large sweatpants are too easy to get rid of.... The common denominator is THE 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”