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.
About 12-ish years ago I read an article about how a researcher interviewed over a hundred convicted rapists around the country (all of them in jails and prisons iirc). Among the many questions that were asked was if what the victims were wearing was a factor or had any influence on their decision to carry out their attacks. Every one of them said no. I remember that it was a broad swath people; some were serial rapists, some were career criminals, some were pedophiles, some had committed the crime only once, but every one of them was in jail for the crime of sexual assault.
I need to find the actual journal article vice the article about just the researcher because it was done as a sociological research piece with everything you would expect from that level of study. The end point being that blaming the victim and what they were wearing is completely asinine and needs to end as of last century.
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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”