Do You Drink Your Dinner?

thiswebsiteisnotgood says:
Tue, 18th Dec 20074:27 am 

“Note to pretty girls: Just don’t put youself in these situations and things like these won’t happen. Promise.”

That is the most stupid, sexist thing I have ever heard, and I’ll tell you why:

a) Like only sex workers get sexually harrassed? You might want to check your statistics on that one, because your assumption is FALSE. Also, sex workers can experience sexual harrassment and rape – just because a woman is a sex worker does not mean she has given the men fo the world carte blanche to do with her as they will. She is still allowed to have personal boundaries, not to mention that legally she still has the same rights as everyone else.

b) Not only strippers are propositioned for sex acts unwantingly. When I was seventeen I was offered money for sex, by a random neighbor as I walked home from highschool – I was wearing a baggy hoody, baggy jeans, had short hair, and no makeup on!

c) “Pretty girls” are not the only ones who are sexually harrassed, raped, stalked, etc.

d) You are perpetuating the mysogynist idea that women are “asking for it” when they are sexually harrassed, or sexually invaded in any way against their will. Since 1 in 3 women in the U.S. are victims of sexual violence you are shaming a large percentage of young women in the 18-35 year age category, by insinuating that they are to blame for something that happened to them that was hurtful and beyond their control.

e) You are an idiot. Your website is for idiots.