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Let's not be so hasty in thinking that this train of thought has been consigned to history; this kind of victim blaming still very much exists unfortunately.

Thinking that what a woman wears can somehow prevent rape does a huge disservice to both sexes. It tells women they only have themselves to blame if somebody rapes them and it tells men they are all potential rapists who can't be trusted to control themeselves should they see a woman in a short skirt. (summed up nicely here) Of course, this theory of what the victim was wearing has been disproven time and time again (we all know rapists rape no matter what clothing the victim has on), but if the idiots who believe it want to do something about it, how about they limit the freedoms of men instead? Instead of telling women not to drink, not to walk at night alone, not wear low cut tops and short skirts, how about they tell men not to go out at night and not to drink, lest they be tempted by those sluts who are walking home by themselves so must obviously be asking for it. (please note my tongue is, of course, planted firmly in my cheek here).

The point stands though that what we need to be doing is telling men not to rape, not limiting women's freedoms to try and not be raped. Rape was happening long before Mary Quant popularised the miniskirt.