Do Clothes Cause Rape? Are Women wearing Short Dresses asking for it?

We are constantly connected to the internet and the world, and while it has opened up a whole new level of access to information, it has also allowed a lot of idiots to come out of the woodworks. In a day and age, where we are closer than ever to curing Cancer (with a number of promising medicines being tested), building hover technology, and settling on other planets, but there is still one place we can’t seem to progress – keeping our noses out of other people’s businesses. One such problem that is plaguing the general population is do clothes cause rape ? Let’s take a deeper look.

Why is it okay to offer unsolicited advice and telling people what they should do and feel and how they should act and dress? I recently came across this bit of video from BuddyBits on my Facebook Page. The context of this video is basically a women who cornered a group of friends in a mall and commented on one of the girl’s dress size. She proceeded to tell her that it was too short, she should be ashamed and she hopes that guys rape her. Outrageous, I know. Here’s the video if you want to watch it.

Now, as I’m rightfully getting mad at the woman, I did what I keep telling people not to do, I went to the comments section. OMG! The amount of people calling the girls wrong for calling out the woman on her ridiculous ideology is mind-blowing. The comments suggest that while the woman was wrong, the girls were worse for actually calling her out on social media and using their voices to show the world that the discrimination of women is still actively persistent.

Once you get past this, then you reach the more aggravating comments – men and women who suggest that what a girl wears does affect how men perceive them; that women should dress better and cover themselves more because that is why men rape them! Seriously? How are we still on this tangent where we think that what a women wears is related to rape?! And if that is the case, then the girls rightfully ask in the video – what about toddlers, young girls, women in sarees, and even women in burkhas that get raped on a daily basis?

Why do we forget that women regardless of what they wear are getting raped. It does not matter what they wear, no matter what they earn, and no matter where they live? It’s not a culture thing, it’s not a dress thing; it is a mentality thing.

And the worst part is that it is men who have an opinion on what women wear! And again we have men who tell women what they can do, can’t do, what they wear, how they act, and so on!

Prominent research suggests more men believe that clothes play a significant role in who gets raped. However, a new exhibition in Brussels, Belgium displays the clothes that victims were wearing during their rape which included a child’s t-shirt, pajamas, and other such daily wear articles. The exhibition is created to dispel the stubborn myth that clothes have anything to do with rape.

This ideology is quite old and dated and it’s about time that we stop victim blaming or victim shaming. A girl has every right to wear a skirt or a pair of shorts or leggings or sareers, or burkhas. She should be able to wear whatever she wants without having to wonder that every time she steps out the house, some a**h*** is going to use it as an excuse to harass or her rape her.

When do we get to decide, what we can wear, how we can walk, what we can do with our lives?! We live in the 21st century, why do men think that they can still control our lives?! When will we finally be rid of this type of toxic mentality that women are not individuals?

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