because a whistle is not a prevention program

Change Happens: The SAFER Blog

August 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Oh, For The Love of All Things Holy

Are you serious?

A Mexican university has banned miniskirts and other “provocative clothing” in an effort to stop “provoking” violent attacks against women.

Héctor Melesio Cuen Ojeda, rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, said that minskirts worn by many of the pupils are an invitation for attacks both inside and outside the university, according to El Universal.

He advised the women among the university’s 46,000 pupils to lower their skirts to knee-level.

What’s that rhythmic thumping sound, you ask? Oh, don’t worry about that. It’s just me banging my head against the wall.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Netvouz
  • DZone
  • ThisNext
  • MisterWong
  • Wists
Comments
  • When will people get that there is no connection to what a woman was wearing and rape. A woman could be standing buck naked in front of a man and that still would not give him an excuse to rape her. This absolves men of personal responsibility and turns them into mindless creatures who are somehow able to rule the world but not their desire to inflict cruel pain on others. Funny how these kinds of excuses are unacceptable for murder.

  • Well, it’s just a matter of time before they require burquas, you know. Even the sight of a female ankle must be prevented so the mens don’t have to accept responsibility for their own behiavior.

  • [...] just because he’d worn a shirt that set off his fabulously blue eyes (she was asking for it, wearing a skirt that short), had a drink with me (what’d she expect, drinking at a bar with a stranger?), kissed me (she [...]

Leave a Comment

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

Threaded commenting powered by Spectacu.la code.