Asian people should not go out at night in Christchurch. Christchurch has a high level of racial violence. If Asian people could be kept from going out at night, racial violence would be reduced; therefore, Asian people ought to stay at home to prevent violence. That's just common sense. The Asian person who goes out at night, knowing that racial violence is a possibility, is at best irresponsible. You'd almost have to wonder if such a person actually wants to be assaulted.
If this sounds like crap, that's because it's crap.
ALAC claims that its 'Lisa' ad has had an impact on its target audience, and I've no doubt this is true. The ad's message is that the world is a dangerous, misogynistic place. Individual women must arrange our lives around this fact, hoping that if we stay sober, lock our doors and dress modestly, the inevitable lurking rapist will pass us by - presumably on his way to target some other, less cautious, female. Viewed this way, sexual violence looks like a problem facing unlucky or drunk individual women, not as a societal issue to which everyone has a responsibility to respond.
There are many good reasons to avoid drinking to excess. Trying to curb the criminal actions of others is not one of them.
2 comments:
Come on, Anna! That's not blaming Asian people for racial violence, just saying that being in public makes them more vulnerable. There's obviously a Clear Difference at work which we Hysterical Feminists are unable to fathom (according to a commenter at my blog, it's because we're too stupid to focus on Real Issues).
I'll see if I can rally my hysterical brain long enough to comment - and then I'll go and have a look at the commentator over at yours I think.
I watched the 'Lisa' ad more closely last night, and noticed that the guy she drunkenly dances with (and touches the shoulder of) is the rapist. I'm probably the last person in the world to notice this, but it's trebled the offense for me. Drinking is bad because drinking makes you flirtatious and this makes men unable to control to their sexual behaviour. It makes me scream at the telly.
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