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1. about 12 years ago on Luann

   I love this comic strip, but I don’t love this particular comic… Assuming that what a girl/woman wears means to expect a lack of self control from males, demeans boys/men. They can’t exhibit self-control when they see a bit of cleavage? Although Tiffany is not being physically assaulted, the assumption is that there is a chance she might…And when that concept is viewed over and over again in the media, it actually becomes accepted. Here is a great quote…

   “When somebody says, “I don’t think women should be raped for wearing short skirts, but what do they expect when they do go out like that?” what you are actually saying is that if a woman in a short skirt is raped, you will be less likely to hold her rapist culpable. Which makes a woman in a short skirt really appealing to a rapist. That’s something that you did. That’s not something the woman in the short skirt did, or something the rapist did. You made that woman a more comfortable target by making it clear that if she got raped, you would be less upset about it, less willing to see the rapist go to jail, less willing to support the woman.” I would love to see Greg Evans go forward with this idea in his strip, to help educate people about how attitudes and words inform action.