Londons SlutWalk

[Scienter]

When is the Yuppie walk?

Overtly rich individuals who want to be able to ostensibly flaunt their money when in dangerous areas or walking down dark alleys. Why can't they talk on new mobile phones with their wallets in their back pockets filled with £50 bills? Too long we are blaming the victim for being provocative and not doing enough to prevent crime.

And come to that, I keep being told not to leave my phone / sat-nav in the car on display? Why should I have to hide it? I'm not the ciminal!

Comparing rape to robbery just doesn't work. Rape is the only crime where the previous conduct of the victim is considered when defending the attacker. Rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove that they are innocent.

You don't hear about robbers getting lighter sentences because their victim was wearing an Armani suit or because they left their iPhone on the seat of their car in a bad neighborhood. No one asks a robbery victim, "What did you do to make him rob you? Are you sure you didn't lead him on?"

Do you honestly believe that a person who robs someone who was flaunting their money is some how less guilty of robbery than someone who robs a person who is dressed shabbily? Should the person who robbed the rich guy get less jail time, or perhaps not go to jail at all? That rich person totally deserved it, right? Because looking wealthy is the same thing as consenting to being robbed.

http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/early...72945.abstract