Blame the victim: Religious leaflet claims ‘ungodly’ dressed women provoke rape

[babsbunny]

http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/blame_the_victim_religious_leaflet_claims_ungodly_dressed_women_provoke_rap/42253/

By Claire Galofaro | Police Beat Reporter - Bristol Herald Courier
Published: February 28, 2010

BRISTOL, Va. – Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger’s drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: “Women & Girls” it said across the top.

“Even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly,” Canter recalled the woman telling her. “You make men want to be sinful.”

[no_hypocrisy]

1. This is here, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.

Shit.

:wtf:

[SidDithers]

2. And women and girls dressed like this...

are never victims of rape?

Sid

[pleah]

9. That picture creeps me out. n/t

[Echo In Light]

[heli]

16. Yep. That's how God invented fashion for women

[TwilightGardener]

21. That's quite some impressive hair engineering there, on some of those gals.

[old mark]

31. Great to see all those happy, smiling faces. nt

[Blue Owl]

32. You know there's

still some sick fuck out there that get turned on by this clothing.

[eShirl]

35. well, they're conditioned not to think of it as rape.

[Odin2005]

3. These wankers need a swift punch in the face.

:grr:

[dmallind]

4. Somehow this too will be "nothing to do with religion"...... NT

[gratuitous]

30. So, what does it have to do with religion?

Someone hides behind a cross or a star or a crescent whilst spouting their bigotry, and that's enough for some people to make that the norm for all people of faith. I guess maybe I'm not religious, then, and all that time working for my congregation, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, is just some elaborate ruse.

:eyes:

[mzteris]

34. questions:

Why do you do these things? What impelled you? Do you WANT to? Do you feel it's part of your "christian duty?" If there were no "church" would you be doing these things anyway?

[Bettie]

5. Maybe she should hand leaflets to the men who can't control their

urges.

WTF????

So, by having breasts and a vagina, we're all asking for it?

Yes indeedy, I'm so glad to be a non-churchgoer today.

Gina

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I can't say precisely what would provode rape, but since it's an act that is committed

on the very old and the very young as well as women who dress in an "ungodly" fashion, I am convinced that the problem is with the perpetrator of the crime and not the victim, regardless of how she is dressed. Stories like this are just revolting.

[Echo In Light]

7. Insane religious zealots provoke black eyes/busted noses, jaws

[AlinPA]

8. Those are "real Americans" down there.

[left coaster]

10. Rape is a crime of control and violence, not of sexual desire..

And that woman who handed the girl that pamphlet perpetuating this outmoded idea should be schooled!

[Bill McBlueState]

11. a fast-food employee?

Presumably Ms. Canter was wearing some kind of uniform. Shouldn't Backseat Lady take her complaint to management if she gets all hot and bothered by a fast-food uniform?

edit: Never mind; this is why we should read articles before commenting on them...

[Brickbat]

12. Anybody who can't control himself just by looking at a woman is the one who has problems.

But of course, we all knew that.

[MineralMan]

13. Hmm...one response would have been for her to be so shocked

that she accidentally spilled a milkshake on that nasty woman's lap. Freaking busy-bodies.

"Take your insulting little pamphlet, roll it up into a tight little tube, and stick it!"

[Echo In Light]

18. G.Carlin's way of dealing w/a cop issuing you a speeding ticket:

"Crumple it up and throw it at his chest, and say, fuck you, and your ticket, too."

[DFW]

14. Maybe these "godly" crusaders prefer women in burqas?

I don't understand why these people are so militant against Islam, as they resemble Islam's
most fanatic adherents more than they resemble any Christian since the Salem witch burnings,
an event some of these "Christians" would no doubt love to reconvene (and, it goes without
saying, preside over).

[NeedleCast]

15. What a ridiculous assertation

It's really no different than saying because I had 40 bucks in my wallet I deserved to get mugged or because I had a nice HD TV in my house I deserved to get robbed.

Seriously, it's "christians" like this one that chased me away from religion.

[daleanime]

17. "Even though nothing is showing..."?

So, basically it's sinful to be attractive?:wtf:






Sick puppies need to get a life of their own and stay out of other peoples.

[Echo In Light]

Imagine if she'd had a low cut top on...or *GASP* had exposed butt cleavage!

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[daleanime]

25. You mean she might of been a....

'gasp', plumber?:hide: That's part of their union rules isn't?

[Echo In Light]

26. ??? maybe? skinny girls like to show off the butt cleavage also

... sorta like how "anal sex is the new blow job" thing, so to the backside cleavage is the new cleavage...apparently lol

[Dogtown]

19. K&R n/t

[hobbit709]

20. Interesting to note where the woman was sitting and where the men were.

[Schema Thing]

22. Jehovah's Witnesses teach that

or at least have taught that in the not to distant past. They at least have the political sense not to use that part of their doctrine for proselytizing.

[pipi_k]

23. Well I hope those idiots are also handing out leaflets and warnings to

elderly women and little girls/babies, who are, no doubt, "asking for it" by dressing like Jezebel Manteasers...


Sinful white cotton underwear!!!1!!

Sinful diapers and little skimpy baby dresses!!1!!1!!!


Lord protect us all from these evil creatures!!1111!!!!!!!

[TlalocW]

24. When I was kicking around grad school

Friday afternoon's entertainment was provided by the evangelist who would come yell at us on the library lawn and me who would respond to his idiocy. His specialty was calling us all whores and whoremongers using the same line of thinking, putting special blame on women who wore pants, shorts, and make-up. Once, when he was really close to me, he started talking about turning women into whores by looking at them with lust in your heart so I turned to the attractive woman next to me and said, "I would like to apologize from the bottom of my heart for..." then I trailed off and openly stared at her breasts. Everybody laughed (including her) while the evangelist had a conniption.

TlalocW

[northofdenali]

27. These zealots will be the downfall of the United States

if we let them.

[Initech]

28. I swear to god our fundamentalists are no better than the ones we're fighting.

[chrisa]

29. This is typical misogyny.

And sadly, there's still remnants of it in our judicial system. Many still believe that women who are dressed a certain way are "asking for it."

Sorry, but as a man, men shouldn't be telling women how to dress, and shouldn't be blaming women for getting raped. How ridiculous. Might as well have written "I hate women!" on the top of the leaflet instead.

[mstinamotorcity]

33. I don' give a damn

how many leaflets they call themselves giving out to the general public,they probably need to start with the church broad who gave her the pamphlet. Because I know several church sisters that party and f--k all day friday and saturday and ask for forgiveness all day in church on sunday.a couple of preachers where there are three sets of kids who all are crossed eyed like the pastor but he ain't the daddy. Yeah right. And some deacons who are collecting church tithes after the congregation tithes.What sister girl did was not a religious thing it was more of the guys in the front seat were looking at the broad in the burger uniform and not the broad in the car.Isn't that sounding like hatorade.I'm just saying that was a b---h move.

[file83]

36. That's when the hot, sexy, chick pulls out her .357 Magnum...

...and replies, "Thanks for the tip sister, but rape has never been an issue for me, Smith & Wesson."

[upi402]

37. I know a whacky Catholic that says that crap

Wears 4 layers of clothes and call most all women whores etc.
So sad for her.

Poor as a church mouse and loves her some Republicans.