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I have a lot of different thought swirling around in my head on this.
The relationship between a criminal and their victim is complicated. I'm talking about all crimes here, not just rape. We all have locks on our houses and cars. If we don't lock our stuff up, and if it gets stolen, will insurance pay if we never lock our stuff up? If I walk alone, listening to my iPod, in the nasty crime ridden drug neighborhoods of DC late at night, and get mugged, was I being stupid?
The criminal is always 100% responsible for the crime, and the victim is 0% responsible, but we all do stuff to a certain degree to protect ourselves from being victims of crime.
After a bunch of horrible crime in a big city, often citizens will stage a "take back the night" sort of an event where they march around in a big group to assert their right to walk around unmolested in their own neighborhoods.
I think this "Slut" walk is a similar thing. I think women have the right to wear anything they please and not get raped. But I also think there are bad guys out there. I don't completely know how their lizard brains work, but I think some of them will rape a woman they find desirable and are able to get alone, and they may find "sluts" more desirable than others. Those "sluts" are 0% responsible for getting raped and the rapists are 100% responsible. But there is probably a correlation between certain behavior and becoming a victim of crime.
Don't believe it? Then why do self defense programs tell people to pay attention to their surroundings? To act alert? Criminals don't tend to choose alert victims. Criminals make decisions based on a person's behavior when they decide if they are going to attack them. Dress probably plays a part in it for some rapists.
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