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Originally Posted by hyejin
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I don't have supporting stats here but I bet people who flash jewels in the street while looking very vulnerable get robbed more than stinky hobos with gnarled hands.
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This is stereotypical blame the victim thinking. Look even if I was wearing jewlery in a bad part of town that does not mean I deserve to be mugged, and there are no conditions where anyone (except maybe a rapist) deserves to be raped.
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Originally Posted by hyejin
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The increased incidence of rape correlates directly to the differential in economic power women benefit from merely by existing in reasonably good health.
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They've studied this, and as far as stranger rape goes it's simply not true. Rapists don't target by wealth or attractiveness (surprisingly). Want to know what they do target?
They did a study where they took like 100 women's photos and gave them to a bunch of rapists in prison, asking them to pick out which ones they'd go after. They found that all of them tended to target the same set of women, and that was the set of women who did not look assertive. They went after the ones who wouldn't make eye contact and had similar weak body language, irrespective of race, attractiveness, etc.