The Slut Walk

It's like a bad nightmare...but it's the reality of the country I live in. People are seriously always playing the blame game, and in this case I would like to defend a certain police officer who in a talk about sexual assualt warned women not to provoke an attack by dressing like a slut. Unfortunately the women attending heard nothing caring in this remark and claim that the officer blames victims for attacks...This they protested by having 'slut walks' in Toronto, Ottawa, and other places...

As I understand it, the actions taken by women after the speech only proved his point. Women nowadays feel that they have no responsibility for the actions of others...in regards to sexual assault this would mean (to put it bluntly) that a woman may be dressed like a slut...looking like an invitation but she doesn't feel that she is responsible for tempting a man to accept this invitation. Don't get me wrong here...it is not the direct fault of a woman who takes the neccessary precautions...trying to express her inward beauty rather than attracting lust-drenched looks from males. Here I think the officer was right...as much as it would be the attacker's crime I would say that inappropriate clothing could be taken for 'implied consent'.

Play it safe...especially as a Christian...it is not wrong to look your best but it is wrong when you dress to tempt. The blame game was invented in the Garden of Eden...don't fall prey to it.

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful..." 1 Peter 3: 3-5a

This passage does not say that you shouldn't dress nice...simply that that should not be your ultimate source of beauty.