| I agree that tougher punishment need to be legislated to combat sexual assualt, and TV shows designed to capitalize on objectifying women (and increasingly, men) in sexual ways should be penalized for doing so.
However I am still against that "Invitation to Rape" Ad. It does not try to stop the men (and women) from committing crimes. Instead it puts the blame on the victims, on how they dress, on how they behave, and how they live their lives, as "the factors" on how sex offenders choose their victims.
The "Invitation to Rape" ad is like telling a rape victim after he or she was raped: "It is not the rapist's fault, but the way you dress made them / temped them into raping you. If you dressed like a good girl / behaved like a good boy, you would not been raped."
That is the reason I was disappointed about that ad when it first released. The society tries to put blame on the victims and their behaviors, instead of the sex offenders that commit the crime.
Similarly for the Kobe trial. I don't care if that hotel service employee had 1, 2, 3, or one million lovers the night before, but IF she reported of being raped by Kobe, then this is a case to be looked into regardless of how the potential victim lived her life. The people who says "She probably temped Kobe into doing wrong things" are probably the ones supporting that "Invitation to Rape" ad, that "Sex offenders only prey on bad girls / bad boys." |