https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 07 May 2026 01:49:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150832 Sun, 02 May 2010 14:18:15 +0000 Isabel 150832@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The fact that this thinking still goes on all over the world is incredible. To this day, women in many cultures have to be covered head to toe ( in both fndamentalist and Christian and Muslim circles ) so as to not "excite" the men. They must always be "modest". It happens in this country, in fact, still.</p> <p>Unbelievable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150791 Sun, 02 May 2010 11:49:12 +0000 Laura 150791@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This article would be laughable were it fiction. I just wish it were from The Onion or some sort of satirical newspaper instead of a real one, which makes the laughable actually true. Ugh. I feel horrible for that poor woman. What kind of judge is that?? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150758 Sun, 02 May 2010 08:44:56 +0000 Katiepea 150758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This article horrifies and saddens me - what a pathetic line of reasoning. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150687 Sun, 02 May 2010 03:17:55 +0000 malcontent 150687@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I fail to see how taking one's jeans off can be interpreted as consent to sex. One can engage in sexual acts without consenting to full-on intercourse. Just as consenting to vaginal sex does not mean consenting to anal sex.</p> <p>I know this article comes from a tabloid newspaper, so I'll just pretend to myself the story is made up. Though it's probably not. Sigh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150561 Sat, 01 May 2010 23:18:53 +0000 Isabel 150561@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This mindset really sets women back generations.<br /> I don't even know what to say. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150553 Sat, 01 May 2010 22:51:53 +0000 Angie 150553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I thought your analogy was fabulously clever, Marianna. For me, it really hit home the point of the absurdity of the article. Thanks for the insight and the chuckle :0)</p> <p>Julie, your friend is a walking miracle. And thank heavens for dog walkers - in more ways than one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150551 Sat, 01 May 2010 22:44:41 +0000 Susan 150551@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is nuts. Even if a woman does take of her clothes by herself, but does not want intercourse, this is still rape. Why is this difficult for folks to understand? Thanks for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150548 Sat, 01 May 2010 22:37:44 +0000 Maya 150548@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Marianna, I wasn't offended at all! I thought it was funny </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150537 Sat, 01 May 2010 22:14:33 +0000 Michelle 150537@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Repugnant. Reprehensible. Appalling. That's not even scratching the surface. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150463 Sat, 01 May 2010 18:31:05 +0000 RoseandJoan 150463@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I maybe misread the article but considered the main point to be if the jeans could be fully removed whilst someone is physically lying on top of you. Of course rape can not be justified by an item of clothing.</p> <p>Angie thanks for your concern, Sharron was raped whilst still at school, a dog walker interrupted the attack which is how she is still alive. Her attacker has never been found. The happy part of her story is the fabulous well adjusted women she has become, she is deeply entrenched in academia and has had a couple of long term loving relationships. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150459 Sat, 01 May 2010 18:22:38 +0000 marianna 150459@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sorry if I offended you, Maya. I wasn't trying to be crude. I provided that analogy because it is as absurd as saying that it's not rape if you're wearing skinny jeans. I thought it was a fair comparison. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150450 Sat, 01 May 2010 17:45:54 +0000 Kate 150450@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have nothing to add except that this is by no means new:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/world/ruling-on-tight-jeans-and-rape-sets-off-anger-in-italy.html?pagewanted=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02.....gewanted=1</a></p> <p>so absurd! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150446 Sat, 01 May 2010 17:16:05 +0000 Maya 150446@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is not a funny topic so I have no idea how you just injected a sense of humor in there Marianna, but you did.</p> <p>I think this man and the jury should all be dragged off to the slammer. OBVIOUSLY it does not take two people to pull off a pair of skinny jeans, otherwise how on earth would you get them off every day? Does everyone who owns skinny jeans need a partner to help wrangle them out? </p> <p>If I can get them off myself, then someone else can get them off of me. And as noted, they don't need to come off completely for the attack to take place. </p> <p>How sleazy, slimey, and disgusting to know that this isn't even the first case where this has come up, and the same decision has been made. It empowers these nasty beasts to perform the same attack over and over again--just make sure she is wearing the right jeans. Sick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150441 Sat, 01 May 2010 17:04:31 +0000 Jenava 150441@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sheer ignorance. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150428 Sat, 01 May 2010 16:25:24 +0000 Angie 150428@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hilarious, Marianna. I choked on my tea. I know that this is a serious thread topic, but that was brilliant. </p> <p>Julie, your poor, poor, poor friend. I cannot even begin to imagine the cognitive repair work that needs to take place after an attack like that. As always, I appreciate your balanced point of view. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150424 Sat, 01 May 2010 16:19:51 +0000 marianna 150424@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is downright disgusting. What's next -- she was eating a popsicle so she was asking for it?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150418 Sat, 01 May 2010 15:59:10 +0000 Vani 150418@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*****absolutely outraged and pissed***** I will say this, this one of the many, many incidents that has me convinced we are headed backwards, towards the dark ages. If it is a man, I would like to shoot him; and if it is a woman, I would make sure she wore nothing but skinny jeans the rest of her life - the jury member who said this "I doubt those kind of jeans can be removed without any sort of collaboration." </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150414 Sat, 01 May 2010 15:57:03 +0000 RoseandJoan 150414@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think this is a very complicated issue, rape is the most vitriolic of crimes and those guilty should rot behind bars for life in my opinion BUT we have to remember that a very small proportion of women do falsely accuse men of rape AND a man accused of rape is entitled to a defense.</p> <p>In cases of date rape, where it amounts to his word against hers, all aspects of the night would have to be considered in determining if sex was consensual or not. The jeans may have been an indicator, yes as Angie has rightly said, skinny jeans only have to be pulled down slightly for a sexual attack to occur, but how easy would they be to fully remove if the man accused is physically lying on you?</p> <p>I do not think a women's dress should be a consideration in rape cases and I DO STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT A WOMAN HAS THE RIGHT TO SAY NO TO SEX AT ANY TIME.</p> <p>In fact my friends Sister Sharron was the victim of rape twenty years ago, she was slashed with a knife several times and is lucky to be alive today. I have witnessed how difficult it is for a victim to rebuild her life BUT in a society where an accused is entitled to a fair trial with a defense these issues will continue to be raised time and time again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150397 Sat, 01 May 2010 15:16:28 +0000 cciele 150397@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's outrageous! *too pissed for more words* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150395 Sat, 01 May 2010 15:13:26 +0000 Angie 150395@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The title of this thread shook me awake.</p> <p>As the woman at the end said: "Any piece of clothing can be removed with force." And you don't even need to remove skinny jeans to rape someone. Pulling the waist down is enough exposure for the brutal act to take place. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150393 Sat, 01 May 2010 15:08:47 +0000 Itari 150393@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's extremely sexist! It's just like blaming a raped woman because she was "provocatively dressed". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150387 Sat, 01 May 2010 14:58:06 +0000 Louise 150387@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>WHAT!!! OMG what an excuse and from the sounds of it it stands up in court that sounds like a green light for would be abusers to target women in skinny jeans!!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150380 Sat, 01 May 2010 14:30:57 +0000 Queen Mum 150380@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>pu-leeeeze! now I have heard it all.</p> <p>hmmm, I"ll have to test that theory later </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150379 Sat, 01 May 2010 14:27:04 +0000 Emily 150379@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So then all women need help removing their skinny jeans. ABSURD! This is so disturbing! Talk about blaming the victim! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150378 Sat, 01 May 2010 14:21:13 +0000 anne 150378@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's a provocative thread title if ever I heard one!! OF COURSE it is still rape! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/its-not-rape-if-youre-wearing-skinny-jeans#post-150375 Sat, 01 May 2010 14:13:45 +0000 shiny 150375@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What does everybody think?</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1270113/Youre-guilty-rape-Those-skinny-jeans-tight-remove-jury-rules.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....rules.html</a> </p>