I’ve been reading my local police force’s website recently (which is quite interesting, to be fair), & went onto the section about personal safety. In the section about staying safe while out for the night, there’s the usual implicit victim-blaming stuff along the lines of “remember that alcohol can affect your actions and reactions as well as reduce your ability to be alert – alcohol is the most common date rape drug”, “Don’t drink so much that you are unable to say NO!”, “consider very carefully whether you should leave the pub, club or party with someone you have only just met”, “If you look and act drunk you are more vulnerable – drink responsibly”, etc., etc. Instead of telling people to modify their behaviour to avoid ‘appearing vulnerable’ & therefore be in danger of being raped, how about telling rapists to modify theirs & not rape people?! The piece of ‘advice’ about considering very carefully whether you should leave a pub or wherever with someone you’ve only just met could also be quite triggering for someone who got raped/sexually assaulted on a night out by somebody they met in said establishment, & make them blame themselves even more than they do already for what happened to them. https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/advice/your-personal-safety/staying-safe-while-out-for-the-night/ In a similar vein, I was watching an episode of Crimes That Shook Britain recently, about murderer & rapist Angus Sinclair. He met his victims (2 teenage girls) in a pub, & they left the pub with him, after which he raped & murdered them. One of the policemen on the show talking about the case said that that was the worst decision they could’ve made. Victim-blaming much? Why not tell men not to rape & murder teenage girls, instead of criticising victims of rape & murder for leaving pubs with their killers/rapists, & berating them for making ‘bad choices/decisions’? I ask you! And we wonder why rape victims don’t come forward, & why conviction rates are crap. I’m really beginning to despair of the police, frankly.