[AnotherUnixGeek]

Right, this pervert who molested Raisman when she was 15 did it because she dressed "in a sexual way".

It's certainly legitimate to argue that women and men should dress in a certain way to avoid revealing too much. It's not legitimate to suggest that how anyone dresses justifies or explains unwelcome sexual advances made to them. I get what Douglas was trying to say, but she didn't need to say it in this context, where it comes across as blaming her teammate Raisman.

[marktwain]

It’s not legitimate to suggest that how anyone dresses justifies or explains unwelcome sexual advances made to them.

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Perhaps. But it sure makes it more likely for a man to believe sexual advances are welcome.

[bluejean]

Maybe if those cute little female gymnasts weren’t wearing such revealing outfits that thier butt cheeks pop out and they are continually pulling them back down, just maybe a male coach wouldn’t be given to obsessive thoughts about that. Maybe cute little female gymnasts should have female coaches. Male gymnasts wear body covering outfits for the most part, or loose shorts. The women wear tight revealing little things. Why IS that, I wonder?

Same with volleyball. The women are in bikinis. The men are in sports clothes. And people wonder why the women get treated like they do. It’s not rocket science but people seem to be baffled about this. Whatever could the motives of women and men BE in these matters? DOH! Just sayin’

[lepton]

It’s not legitimate to suggest that how anyone dresses justifies or explains unwelcome sexual advances made to them.
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Advertising sexuality isn’t an exact science choosing only those welcome advances. Simply existing also isn’t advertising.

What it doesn’t justify is using force, drugging, trapping, or violence.