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FLAWS ON THE BELIEF Wearing less revealing clothes is not correlated with rape and sexual harassment. To prove my stand, I will state flaws and points why the two objects; clothing and sexual harassment, are not associated with one another. “Different people have their own perception of appropriateness.” This flaw states that humans have different understandings, perception, and perspectives. And due to this unique feature, we have different definitions about the things around us. Appropriateness is one of those things. A girl may wear clothing that is appropriate, but even just a flash of a girl's shoulders, legs, or waist, people will still think perverted thoughts. This flaw constitutes that no matter how much one tries to cover his/her …show more content…

This flaw proves that women are ‘still’ being harassed and raped even with decent clothing. It was already stated that rape victims as young as 6 months and as old as 96 years are raped. This further weakens the environment of the rape culture that centralizes on putting responsibility on the victims for their own victimization. Another sort of rape cases that defies the rape culture are cases of rape on nuns. Nuns are female followers of a religion, mainly Christianity. According to the 1996 survey of nuns in the United States (which was not publicly published but leaked by a Vatican officer), “it is reported that a minimum of thirty-four thousand Catholic nuns (about forty percent of all American nuns) claim to have been sexually abused. Three of every four of these nuns claimed they were sexually victimized by a priest, nun, or other religious person. Two out of five nuns who stated they were sexually abused claimed that their exploitation included some form of genital contact. All nuns who claimed repeated sexual exploitation reported that they were pressured by religious superiors for sexual

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