A Dress Code For Russians? Priest Chides Skimpiness

[Muzh]

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has angered women’s groups recently with his comments about female modesty. At a December round table on interethnic relations, he said a woman wearing a miniskirt “can provoke not only a man from the Caucasus,” the predominately Muslim region on Russia’s southern border, “but a Russian man as well.”

“If she is drunk on top of that, she will provoke him even more,” he said. “If she is actively inviting contact, and then is surprised that this contact ends with a rape, she is all the more at fault.”

The Orthodox Church has an increasingly powerful voice in Russian society, its agenda closely bound to that of the country’s leaders. Kirill, in particular, has made it a point to reach out to young people with a nationalist message, at gatherings that have sometimes resembled rallies of the Kremlin’s youth group, Nashi. Father Chaplin, one of his appointees, once proposed the creation of a network of “Orthodox nightclubs” where young people could gather for late-night fellowship.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/europe/19russia.html?ref=europe

[Kuna]

What a great idea... Orthodox Nightclubs!   I'm serious!



I don't agree that any woman who is raped is "at fault"...but the turn of phrase "all the more at fault" may suggest more responsibility, not total fault.

IMHO women in Australia at times have invited trouble, not so much through their attire (or lack of it), but because of excessive drinking and inappropriate behaviour.

There was an incident here not so long ago where a girl in a night club went into the mens toilets and gave three first grade footballers a blowj0b and then went to the police and complained the next day because one of them took a photo on his phone.

She was never named, but the footballers where harassed and humiliated by the media for weeks... what they did was wrong (I mean, who would want to follow his mates anyway???) but the girl in question must be one hell of a lowlife to go in there and do it to begin with.

It came out that her objection wasn't the act...it was the photo.

Does she have any responsibilities for her actions???