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• Lauren

  The title of this article skews the reader’s perspective on this story towards the police being the bad guys. In reality, the police advised women not to wear skirts because the attacker targeted women wearing skirts. Simple as that. 

  I understand the author feels the police should focus on providing self defense tips and other such things, but as stated in the article, they are providing those classes and have increased patrol in the area. I not sure what else the author is trying to get at; the police are doing their job and I’m sure they are investigating the incidences to figure out who the culprit is. 

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  If I am in a bad area I don’t talk loudly about how much money I have in my wallet holding an Iphone.  I am attracting undue attention to myself if I were to do that.  The same theory holds based on the clothing I am wearing.  If I were to wear a suit and holding a briefcase after exiting limo in a bad area.  I am again attracting undue attention to myself.  Now if a woman is all alone in a bad area she should have the common sense not to attract undue attention to herself. 

• Marr

  The quote says the exact opposite of what this article appears to be complaining about.
  If there is someone going after women in skirts, don’t wear a skirt. Don’t entice him. It’s as simple as that.

• Cedarblu

  it’s amazing to me that people accept this as okay. instead of teaching women how not to get raped, how about teaching men not to rape. 

• Anonymous

  The author of this article skews the reader’s perspective on everything he reports. It didn’t take long to learn if the authors name is put to an article, know you’ll read the authors fabrications, before reading what the article is actually about.

• ewalsh

  Amen. And for every man and woman, commenting on this article, stating that women should learn to adapt so that they don’t bring a rape on themselves, I’ll show you people that should be spending time teaching all of the young boys and men around them, how to control their impulses, and behave like human beings instead of animals that need to be kept on a leash.

   I mean if we really think that women are the problem here, maybe our society should be more like it is under the Taliban. Women have to cover themselves head to toe and only go out with a male escort. I agree with using common sense, but I don’t agree with the police telling women that they need to dress more modestly. They have a job to do, and it doesn’t include making those kind of pronouncements, it includes finding this guy and getting him put away. And my dad was a cop, so I respect them and the job they do. In this instance though, they stepped way over the line.

   Rapists don’t rape because women entice them by being provocative, any more than pedophiles rape because the children around them are being provocative. They rape because they are rapists by nature, inclination and self grooming. 

• GirlPower!

  Thats funny because I seem to remember at the beginning of the summer an 80 something year old woman was raped on the Upper East Side..

• DRH

  To be honest, the police had good intentions, but
  even the best of intentions have unintended consequences. There some assailants
  who are opportunists; and so skirts and similar articles of clothing could
  make for easy access.  But let’s not
  forget females with pony tails are often targeted because their hair is easier
  to grab. Also, women on cells phones should be careful because they are distracted
  and that makes them easy targets as well. 
  The list could continue on like this for pages.  And it’s quite possible that there were more
  similarities to these victim’s than just their clothing which made them easy
  targets.

  Unfortunately, by police telling woman they can
  avoid rape if they dress more moderately, it is NOT only misleading but it’s
  perpetuating a rape myth.  It also
  implies rape is an impulsive, uncontrollable act of sexual gratification and if
  a girl walks by in a tiny little skirt that the man simply can’t control
  himself.  Psychologists and criminologist
  have known for years rape is a crime about power and control. Sex is purely
  just the medium in which that particular psychopath chose to take control of another. 

  As a victim of rape, I’m all too familiar of the psychological
  and emotional effects of being raped and then ultimately blamed for it. The
  lesson to learn here is that there are ways that the police can increase
  awareness about the crime and type of victim without inadvertently
  placing the blame of the crimes on the victim and perpetuating myths.