Essay: The Slippery Slope That Leads To Rape

All the world's a flutter with the insistence that we pay more attention to women's rights and voices. It's an era when the gentleman of yesterday can no longer be a man and the virtuous women that embodied society's honor can no longer be found. Of course, under such circumstances it becomes necessary for our society to look deeply into a mirror. Within it will not find the abyss, but the answers to the great malaise that possesses its when any conversation of sexual assault rears its ugly head. Quite obviously, in a world where the gentleman has become a relic of antiquity, it has become ever more incumbent upon women to guard themselves from the brute that is the 21st century man. I propose that women of all races and cultures look most closely to themselves to discover the secrets to guarding against the wiles of the sexually improprietous male.

Before we cast our sharpened eyes across the world, it falls to us to observe those most liberated of women, those of western society, are those who most obviously present the most prime of targets for the wandering invader. Or are we not to believe the word of that most upstanding symbols of civic virtue, the highly trained constables who daily risk their lives on our streets? Are we to doubt them when they say

'You know, I think we’re beating around the bush here. I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this, however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized."  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...

It should be quite obvious to even the least educated among us that a woman's mean of dressing is the most obvious of invitations to lude gentlemen callers. After all, though she be not a prostitute, she certainly seems to wear the uniform. Though perhaps, given the raucous uproars that have so greatly exaggerated the aggressive actions of police officers, you stand among those that cast a suspicious light upon those brave fellows that guard our safety. Then may we not at least agree that those who inhabit the ivory towers of our greatest intellectual institutions may be trusted when they argue that women are most likely fabricating these encounters?

"We have, we had, on this campus last semester three cases of young women who after having done whatever they did with the young men, and then it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to turn out -- guess what they did?" he said. "They went to [the university's Department of] Public Safety and said, 'He raped me.' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And even if one chooses, in the face of all secular statements, to question the authority of both our official constabulary as well as our guardians of intellectual progression, perhaps it may be agreed that at least the leaders of our great Western religions know best when they argue

"Well, there’s always a sin under other sin. There’s a root sin... ‘We have to find the sin in your life that caused your rape." http://america.aljazeera.com/...

Should it not be obvious to all by now that the women of our Western nations, freed from previous shackles, have perhaps overstepped bounds not set by man but by nature? It seems an analysis of the situation clearly outlines that those assaulted have by some manner invited the assault. Why, even a young girl can quite clearly be held personally accountable for the invitations she sends out. For what young man can restrain the bodily insistence of nature? Certainly the police of the great nation of Australia were not avoiding the duties of their office when they told this young, thirteen year old girl that

"I didn't have enough evidence to show, because I went out in clothes that was pretty much asking for it. " http://jezebel.com/...

Quite obviously our Western women have badly influenced the younger sort. However, turn not your gaze only to the naive youngsters being so viciously set upon by the negative examples being set in our culture. Even the women in the neighboring Middle East have taken to such lascivious behavior that they have quite rightly been set upon by their less inhibited male compatriots. Even the Imams of the Muslim religion have seen the influence it has had on their clothing.

“Women are not entitled to respect when they walk around without a Hijab. They are to blame for it when they are attacked,” Imam Shahid Mehdi said. http://www.frontpagemag.com/...

And before one assumes that the nefarious influences of Western inconsideration have affected only those of the Near East, watch closely its effects on our long treasured relationship with the good people of India, who argue

"A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy," Mukesh Singh, one of the six rapists convicted in the 2012 attack, says in the documentary, because "a decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night." http://www.vox.com/...

It must be set clear from all such evidence as we have before us that the problem lies clearly with women who have not taken the necessary precautions to safeguarding themselves from the less savory of our male societal members. Think not only of the most blatant examples of sexual extravagance women have demonstrated. Instead we must look to the loose morals of the 13 year old and the creeping degradation infecting the other great cultures of the world. For if a woman cannot, at a minimum, restrict her clothing to a hijab and restricting herself to staying indoors after nine in the evening, can she truly lay claim that she was raped?