1 August 2014
A petition has been started asking the Home Office to remove all copies of a 2006 poster — still in circulation — that warns “one in three reported rapes happen when the victim has been drinking”. Over 88,000 people have complained about the victim-blaming implications; but what about the tipsy logic, points out Guardian columnist Ellie Mae O’Hagan? If two of three attacks happen when the victim is sober, then “clearly the solution is for women to be drunk permanently. I don’t know why the NHS is encouraging women to be pissed constantly, but whatever keeps the crime rates low, right lads?”
We asked the “lads” at the Home Office, who had no comment.
