Liza

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Feb 22, 2008 at 18:43

When points on here are not made clearly, they leave room for interpretation.

Certain Muslim men (as well as other men) think that because a woman is drunk or dresses "sexy" as you put it, think that rape is justified. In Muslim countries, rape of women is more common than you think. I hear about this a LOT more than I do about men simply not respecting a woman, even from European feminists who are too scared to stand up to Muslim men.

Also, the only place I think of where girls dress as you describe are at the beaches, bath houses or in strip clubs where such attire is appropriate. It's too bad if Muslim or conservative men don't like seeing it, then they go elsewhere or live in Saudi Arabia. Women don't go walking down the street dressed like you say, but many times they just dress for the weather or what they feel comfortable in. In the case of Muslim males, they don't realize this is the culture, partly because Europeans are too squeamish to tell them about it in case they might hurt their feelings! What a tragedy that would be!

You do have a point to the effect that people should not be shocked if they get and drunk and someone takes advantage of them. I hear it happens to both men and women--sexual wise and money wise. That's one reason why I don't drink. Solves the problem entirely. But in Western society, alcoholism, like so many other problems, are referred to as "diseases" instead of irresponsibility.

So, to summarize, it's the man who needs to restrain himself, not the woman. Could some women dress more modestly? I guess so. Some of them do dress with clevage showing to attract attention on purpose. If a man cannot restrain himself, he shouldn't frequent places like that, and both Chrisitianity and Islam have teachings which tell us to avoid occasions that might cause us to sin.

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