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In the world we live in, when someone mentions sexual harassment or sexual assault, the victim is usually blamed. Different comments such as “Well, if she was wearing that she was asking for it” or “She was asking for it dresses like that.”  The victim is almost always blamed for what happened to them, and the perpetrator roams free and blameless. A student in Arcadia University was tired of hearing the victim being blamed, so she took it upon herself to take a picture of what the victim was wearing and suggested that maybe the fault wasn’t of the victim but of the perpetrator. In our society we tend to let sexual assaulter and harassers pass, with comments like “They couldn’t help themselves” which is completely unacceptable. How can someone justify that it’s the victim’s fault, when all the victim was doing was wearing what they want, on their own body. Furthermore, this article shows that regardless of what a person is wearing they can still be sexually assaulted because a sick person thought that it was acceptable to violate someone’s body because they felt like it. We need to battle this belief and make sure that the next generation knows right from wrong, and that violating someone’s temple, their one and only body, is not okay. Instead of telling people to cover up, we need to tell people to respect everyone around them. Anyone should be able to comfortably go around in whatever they are wearing, and not be fearful of their life. We need to work to achieve a society where we don’t blame those who were wearing what they wanted, but we instead blame those that took advantage of another person.

-Stella