Let's be real here, as it stands, the preventive measures of rapists are very small. As mentioned earlier, there are a plethora of circumstances that cause men to be rapists, and more often than not you're gonna have no fukking idea who a rapist is....until they rape someone, or at least try. THEN, something is done about it. Until then, how else would we determine who's a rapist?
? Do we perform a door to door psychological census or some shyt? No. So basically, there is very little we can do to prevent people from raping in the first place, but plenty of ways we can prevent them from doing it again, therefore, the measures to prevent rape are more reactive than preventive. However, those potential victims have plenty of preventive measures they can take that would make the chances of them being raped smaller.
No one's saying that it would make them 100 percent able to avoid it, as hell, none of us could avoid stepping outside and maybe someday getting shot if it's gonna happen for sure, but at least being cautious would decrease the chances of being raped by a lot, rather than repeatedly placing ones self in a situation in which you increase those odds with that "It could never happen to me!" false sense of security. That way of thinking is usually what gets people got. Being on the scene, drinking, maybe doing drugs and hooking up with randoms all the time? Yeah, the chance of rape and/or assault, robbery or murder definitely rise. Once again, NO ONE IS BLAMING THE VICTIM. People need to quit going into fukking extremes. However, this is a sick, sick world full of sick, violent people who victimize others, and you will find a lot more of them in certain environments and/or situations. You can live how you like, do what you want and put yourself in any situation you like, but know that doing so will draw consequences involving other people or not.
Let me use an extreme now. You're an outdoors enthusiast. You want to go on a nature hike. You go on a hike through territory where dangerous animals such as bears or mountain lions are known to inhabit. You can either educate yourself and take the proper equipment, precautions and knowledge to still hike and survive, go out there totally naive with a false sense of security and most likely end up fukking mauled to death, or avoid the shyt altogether and find a safer way to pass the time and guarantee not getting mauled by animals. Note that I'm not comparing rapists to mindless animals(well actually they kinda are, in a sense), but like those animals, they're predators, and you assume the risk by putting yourself in an environment where said predators frequent.
Another example, yes, racism is wrong, assault and murder is wrong, but if I bring my black ass to a random predominately white small town in southern rural america and decide to hang around, guess what? Chances are I'm putting my life in danger. Now I could, once again, educate myself based upon prior experiences or through knowledge of others and come through armed and not stick around for long; come through the town trying to interact with the locals on some "not all whites are bad
" like a naive dumbass, or simply avoid such places altogether. There are those who victimize, but we can all take precautions to avoid being victims. I'm still not getting where the victim blaming is even happening in this thread.
It's sounding more like people want to continue to dance with the devil with that mindset that they're safe doing so, and don't want their false sense of security bubble busted. Well, you might wanna either heed someone else's words, or let reality teach you the hard way. Take it how you want.
