So you’re saying that if I go to a party in a really short skirt, and I’m flirting all over the place—if I get raped, it’s not my fault? Yes, I’d say. That’s exactly what I’m saying. Sometimes it seemed to me that the girls just didn’t want to hear that rape is never the victim’s fault. They wanted to have something to believe in, rules to follow, a formula, reasons other girls got raped and they didn’t: short skirt equals rape; too much beer equals rape; unlocked door equals rape. The part I wanted them to understand is that these equations can implode, constricting your whole life, until one
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