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Originally Posted by Eric

Yeah ... but you are just buying into another stereotype: that it is only attractive, sexilly dressed, young women who are raped. This is obviously not the case ... except perhaps for date rape. Babies are raped, so are pensioners. And unless there are some significant changes in attitudes, both in law enforcement, the judiciary (and surely there must be some British examples of insensitivity on the bench ) and in the general population, the crimes will continue ... and so will the dismissive attitudes. The people at risk out there are our daughters, grand daughters, our wives, our partners, our mothers, our friends. Maybe the marches are fads. But the problem is real. Maybe the marches will achieve little ... But Pride Marches have gone some way to changing the attitudes of society to gays and lesbians.

Great post Eric and until people realise and change the "she was asking for it by the way she was dressed" attitude rape is going to be forever played down