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The findings also disclosed that about twenty percent of the people polled believe that wearing sexy or revealing clothing should lead to a woman being held partly responsible for being raped or sexually assaulted...Another sad finding of the survey is that only 52 percent of the respondants believe that prostitutes have basic human rights...
What does this survey tell us?It tells us that it doesn't matter if we live in the West or the East, in a developed country or an underdeveloped one, we all still live in largely patriarchal and misogynistic societies...But there is hope...I'm sure if this survey had been conducted 25 years ago, the number of people who believed that women were not to blame no matter what the circumstances were, would have been lower...
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I'm a bit concerned about the teenagers of today...I'm worried that they will start to slide back into the arms of Rape Culture via the proliferation of pornography and the celebration of violent entertainment...It takes generations to change regressive attitudes but the media can change positive attitudes to regressive ones in a matter of months...I hope the younger generation is intelligent enough to differentiate between make believe and reality...
