There is no relation between the size of clothes and the incidence of rape.
LAHORE: This is with reference to the letter “Dress modestly, please” (September 28) by Mubashir Mahmood. The writer says that the main reason for sexual assault and rape is the clothing worn by women. This phrase represents the male chauvinistic mindset prevalent in Pakistan, which places responsibility of sexual assault on the dressing sense of a woman. If immodest dressing causes rapes, then what about the little girl recently raped in Lahore? Was she responsible for the attack? There are still some tribes in the Amazon forest, where people wear minimum clothes. Does this mean that by wearing minimum clothes, women of that tribe provoke men to attack them?
There is no relation between the size of clothes and the incidence of rape. Rape incidents occur even in Saudi Arabia, where women are covered from head to toe. So, an attack by a rapist is not dependent upon modest or immodest clothing, rather it is the sickening mindset of some men, who do not shy away from attacking or assaulting women and children.
The onus of rape is always on the attacker who cannot control his sexual urges. No woman wants to be raped and immodest clothing is not an invitation for rape. This message needs to be propagated in our society.
Omer Butt
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2013.
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