Saturday, December 1, 2007

Central Park

OKAY.
I understand why people would ask this woman these questions...because they are uneducated when it comes to rape. Sure maybe it wasn't the safest thing to run in Central Park at night, BUT it wasn't stupid. People, men and women, have every right to be where they want when they want and not expect consequences like being raped. What if she had been raped in the middle of the afternoon in the park? Not like that's never happened before. Central Park can be as safe or dangerous as any other place in the world. Fact is people have been attacked in broad daylight there. What would you say to her then... Were you wearing provocative clothing? I mean seriously, come on people. No one asks to be raped. No one! It's not her fault that she was raped, no matter what she was doing or when or where. Plain and simple, end of story.

Read the article and form your own opinion.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/central-park-rape-victim-and-oprah-at-odds/

1 comment:

Lorelei said...

the problem is very clearly NOT that women are, oh no, walking through central park -- it's that there are people looking to rape other people in central park. she would have had no chance of being raped if there were no rapists there.