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[redbird]

Not that I think many of my readers need this reminder, but good writing and good ideas are worth passing along: erbie has written an excellent post on How to stop rape. As she notes, it's almost certainly not complete, but it casts the right light on things. (I found it via metaquotes.)

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Millennia after "Thou shalt not kill," people still kill.

Shouldn't there be something about "Don't trust that everybody will abide by these"? I know I'm near the borderline of trite advice and victim-blaming, which is why I'm saying it here instead of over there. There will always be assholes; there will always be danger. Back to the example of murder: you can do everything right and still get dead if you're simply relying on others not to kill you.

[redbird]

This is true. And in both cases, useful things to do range from keeping an eye out to reporting assaults, and training police departments and the court system to take them seriously. You don't deter murder by shrugging off assaults that leave someone in the hospital as "boys will be boys," and you don't deter rape by treating sexual harassment and groping as "normal."