The mistake in this column is in the blatant acceptance of the notion that men raping women is going to happen --- the acceptance that this is the reality and will always be the reality --- when in fact, she should be challenging that very premise.

Even if a woman is naked on the street and drunk out of hr mind, she should not be attacked. Those who attack her are committing a crime of sexual assault, period. There are NO execuses for that, and it ***should never happen.*** Period.

I realize that **should** is the operative word and that it does happen and it is the reality. I am not saying that young women shouldn't be carful, given his reality. But the point is, they ought to be safe regardless and the society needs to make that abudantly clear through its laws.