Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Russian dress code?

From an article in today's issue of The New York Times:

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has angered women’s groups recently with his comments about female modesty. At a December round table on interethnic relations, he said a woman wearing a miniskirt “can provoke not only a man from the Caucasus,” the predominately Muslim region on Russia’s southern border, “but a Russian man as well.”
“If she is drunk on top of that, she will provoke him even more,” he said. “If she is actively inviting contact, and then is surprised that this contact ends with a rape, she is all the more at fault.”
 Misogyny at its finest, isn't it?

Because men have absolutely no control over their own actions, and any consequences should be of the "provocative" women's wrongdoing...*

*obvious sarcasm

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