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Feminists, don’t get your panties in a twist.

Saying victims of rape deserved it and saying victims of rape could possibly have prevented it with sound judgment are two different things.

Nicole Hurt’s letter to the editor Monday [“Female victims should not be blamed for rape”] said a Friday Red & Black article perpetuated a “victim-blaming rhetoric” because both University Chief of Police Jimmy Williamson and University President Michael Adams warned against women opening themselves as targets for rapists.

Friday’s article [“Rape connected to binge drinking, officials say”] quoted Williamson as saying, “We try to remind people to drink in a responsible way, because if you overconsume, you can make yourself more appealing to people who want to commit a crime.”

And it quoted Adams as saying, “I particularly would appeal to young women to make sure they use sound judgment about where they are, what time of day, and what condition they’re in because those circumstances occur in an overwhelming majority of those kinds of cases.”

Then The Red & Black opinions editor Courtney Holbrook, writing for the editorial board, pitched in against Williamson and Adams’ statements, writing Monday that women should be able to wear revealing clothes and drink downtown without worrying about rapists on the prowl.

Holbrook is right. Women should not have to worry about rapists — in an ideal world.

But this ain’t an ideal world, ladies.

Read the full column at the Red & Black.

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