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Re: Serena Williams was Right?
There are two sides to the coin, but in no way do foolish choices make the girl ultimately responsible for her own rape.
You could say the same sort of thing about a murder victim. "Why were they walking down that alley at night? Didn't their mother ever teach them not to walk in dark alleys by themselves?"
Such questions could have validity, but they're in poor taste and moot after something bad has already happened. They're in poor taste because they at least seem to remove some culpability from the perpetrators, and there's no excuse for alleviating any of that guilt.
Foolish choices can raise our risk of harm, but they still don't make victims directly responsible for their own harm. The perpetrator is always fully responsible.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Last edited by MissBrattified; 06-25-2013 at 07:30 AM.
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