One in five say drunk women partly to blame for rape, survey finds

[Violet_Crumble]

An alarming number of Australians believe that violence towards women and rape can be excused and blame the victim, particularly if she is drunk, a new report shows.

About one in five Australians agree that a woman is partly responsible for rape if she is intoxicated, and one in six agree with the notion that when women say "no" they actually mean "yes".

A nationwide VicHealth survey of 17,500 people about their attitudes towards violence against women discovered that although most people understood that family violence was a crime, a sizeable proportion believed there were circumstances in which it could be excused.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/one-in-five-say-drunk-women-partly-to-blame-for-rape-survey-finds-20140916-10hu5q.html#ixzz3Dg14o1Xi

Pretty depressing results...

[mercuryblues]

1. It isn't

females drinking that is the problem.


55% of female students and 75% of male students involved in acquaintance rape admit to having been drinking or using drugs when the incident occurred.

But hey, lets blame women for their rape because they drank, absolving the men that raped when they were drinking.

So what you have here is that the woman are blamed for being raped, while the males use their drinking as an excuse to absolve themselves for their crime.

The focus has been on the females drinking, not the criminals.

Another survey of serial rapists, 33% admitted to drinking prior to the rape. 33% also admitted to drug use. The survey did not distinguish if there was some overlap between the alcohol/drug use.

http://www.hcs.calpoly.edu/content/pulse/sobering-stats.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. One in Five do not want to accept responsiblity for their own actions.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Lots of education is needed, apparently.

Most of those percentages are very troubling. One in six think that DV is a private matter? Ugh.