When women wear revealing clothing or costumes they do not invite someone to assault or rape them. When I read an article in which a professor of psychology is quoted as stating that wearing these costumes “can be an invitation to trouble”, I get a little riled up. Sometimes a woman likes to dress sexy for someone she is interested in, but that doesn’t mean she is handing out “touch me” invites to anyone she walks by.
In fact, it doesn’t even mean that she wants to engage in sexual activity with the person she wanted to dress up for. Individuals that assault and rape women will say the woman was asking for it because her skirt was too short. They will claim their actions couldn’t have been rape because she wouldn’t have been wearing a low-cut shirt if she didn’t want it.
Whether a woman is wearing a sexy gangster costume or a nun costume does not matter. So, please, don’t place the blame on victims, and don’t justify violence against women.