Not Ever

[rowyn]

A commercial from a UK anti-rape campaign. I wouldn't normally expect that sort of thing to make me laugh, or if it did, for that to be a good thing. But this did. Hee!

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[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have said "She's asking for it" spoken in the tone it was spoken in means rape.

There are a lot of things she could be 'asking for', or at least 'looking for'.

I dunno. Maybe it's a British vs American phrasing conflict. But, if someone said "she's asking for it" to me, I would not be thinking rape.

Now, maybe if he'd said "She's asking for trouble"...?

On the other hand, perhaps I'm being thrown off by my own prejudicies concerning the British. One expects good manners from someone with an accent like that. (I still have that instinctive reaction, even though, I've met with enough British to know they're just as fallible as we.) Perhaps with American accents it would have a different feel. I don't know.

Sorry, I'm confused.

[rowyn]

I wouldn't *assume* that's what he meant, either. But "she's asking for it" is the sort of thing that rapists and their supporters say to justify raping women who are too drunk or drugged to effectively object. :( So I thought it was a funny way of derailing that line of thinking before it could even get fully started.