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LETTERS: Blaming the victims

While on the surface there seems to be some merit to Dayal Nitai's argument (Letters, Feb. 17, page 8) that "if only women would dress modestly, they would not be groped on [the] bus or [the] MRT," in reality it is a classic example of blaming the victim. The women are not at fault; the men who grope them are. Women should not be groped, period, regardless of what they are wearing and irrespective of their status as the "mothers of mankind." Women are entitled to power over their own body. It should not be too difficult to understand that just because you can see it, it doesn't mean you can touch it.

Annie Ellens Oving

Taipei
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