jack - I read the MP piece, so you don't have to.
i am amazed that a woman - much less an intelligent professional one paid considerable for her opinions, would write such utter tosh.
She see-saws between trying to opine that no woman deserves to be raped, but then counters that point by opining that women who dress inrevealing clothes do so because they wish to be leered at and fatasised about.
That not only demeans women who have the right to choose to dress exactly how they please in a western democracy, but reduces men to leering boorish dullards with nothing but sex at the end of a night out on their minds.
Yes some men are like that - but some men are rapists, and some women are sluts, but tarring everyone with the same brush helps no-one to be educated in the finrer points of respect and courtesy.
MP is trying to have it both ways - as a woman she wants to try and say that women are entitled to dress as they wish, as a Mail journalist she is mealy mouthedly saying that the '*** Walks' miss their point enitirely - because that is in line with the editorial policy and gerneral mindset of her readership.
It is very simple - a woman can walk out in a short skirt and a low top because she enjoys looking good, and attracting some attention. That is a universe away from any notion, however dressed up (sorry!) it is by the likes of MP - that such attention will end in assault by the end of the night because men have not learned that if a woman wishes physical contact, she will advise such - or not, as is her right.
It's not difficult. If the likes of MP educated their sons to grow up with sufficient respect for themselves and everyone else, this argument would not be taking place anywhere - on the street, in newspapers, or on here.