Short skirts and MAGA hats: They were asking for it

According to a British study from 2010, one-third of Londoners blame rape victims for dressing provocatively. And the study found that women were substantially less forgiving than men in evaluating whether a victim is to blame for her own assault.

The trope is as old as time, lambasting a victim because her skirt was too short, and surely she was asking for it. In a now infamous incident from 2011, a Toronto cop told a group of female students, “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” Just months later, women reclaimed the narrative and leaned into the worst of victim blaming, and thus, the “SlutWalk” was born.