Women 'to blame' for being raped?

A third of Britons believe a woman who acts flirtatiously is partially or completely to blame for being raped, according to a new study.
More than a quarter also believe a woman is at least partly responsible for being raped if she wears sexy or revealing clothing, or is drunk, the study found.
One in five think a woman is partly to blame if it is known she has many sexual partners, while more than a third believe she is responsible to some degree if she has clearly failed to say "no" to the man.
In each of these scenarios a slightly greater proportion of men than women held these views - except when it came to being drunk, when it was equal.
In fact more women (5pc) than men (3pc) thought a woman was "totally responsible" for being raped if she was intoxicated.
Support groups described the findings as "alarming" and "appalling".
The national charity Victim Support urged criminal justice professionals and healthcare workers to "consider how best to educate people about the terrible impact of rape, with a view to changing these attitudes."
The ICM opinion poll, commissioned by Amnesty International, also revealed that the vast majority of the British population has no idea how many women are raped every year in the UK.
Almost all, 96 per cent, of respondents said they either did not know the true extent of rape or thought it was far lower than the true figure.
Only 4 per cent even thought the number of women raped exceeded 10,000. The number of recorded rapes in 2004/5 was more than 12,000 and the 2001 British Crime Survey estimated that just 15 per cent of rapes come to the attention of the police.
'Rape is an appalling crime'Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said the poll, part of its Stop Violence Against Women campaign, had uncovered "disturbing attitudes".
She said: "It is shocking that so many people will lay the blame for being raped at the feet of women themselves and the government must launch a new drive to counteract this sexist 'blame culture'."
The research had also exposed the scale of public ignorance over the true extent of rape crimes in the UK and the "dreadfully low" conviction rates, she said.
"The government has an international duty to prevent this gross human rights violation yet it's clear that the government's policies on tackling rape are failing and failing badly," she said.
"These findings should act as a wake-up call to the government to urgently tackle the triple problem of the high incidence of rape, low conviction rates and a sexist blame culture."
Joanna Perry, policy manager at Victim Support, said: "It is alarming to read that so many people seem to believe that a woman is responsible for inviting a rape or sexual assault, because of what she was wearing, what she drank or how she behaved.
"Rape is an appalling crime and has a devastating effect on victims, and those close to them. In other words, nobody asks to be raped."

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-369262/Women-blame-raped.html

I have heard for the past few months about this issues, where women are said to be partially responsible/blamed for some rape cases. Some said that it's the woman's fault that they are being a victim of rape, since their outfits were very revealing. I want to know your opinions and thoughts about this. No particularly based on the article above. I'm sure there are a lot of articles and issues you have read all over the internet or that you have read in newspaper, maybe. I want to know my classmates' (aka you) opinions and thoughts because you are all way smarter and have broader mind than me, I want to learn from you so that someday I could make a better post than this.

In my opinion though, the victims of rape are not always sexy or easy girls who flirt with strangers or just give hint to everyone that they want to be teased. Sometimes the most well dressed, well behaved and neat women are the victim.  And as the article said, no one wants to be raped. Putting aside the religion's obligation to wear veil and covering the aurat, I think to say that women shouldn't wear revealing clothes is a very different matter from this rape thing. It's shouldn't be the reason for them to be blamed if they're victimized by rapists. I cannot put my sentences well, I'm sorry. All I'm saying is, it's true that women should wear more neat, polite clothes that only show a little bit of their skin, and that they should not be out alone at late night, but they are not obligated to do it either. And when they do it, I think the reason should be because they are well aware of the danger and possibility in the society and neighborhood and of course their own common sense that women should be graceful, classy and well behaved.
And if, some women have not found their path onto that thought yet, it is not right of those red eyed men with evil intentions to take advantage of them. They should be the one having the protective feeling and respect to women. And if they don't have it, it just proves how shallow, uneducated, and how easy of them to be manipulated by their own raging libido.


A. R. M