no, what she's wearing doesn't mean she "asked for it".
i think people confuse what they personally feel comfortable both wearing and looking at for some generalization about how people "should" look or dress. i don't like it when women dress too revealingly, so my own dress is relatively modest. and if i wanted to be a bitch about it, i'd mention that i don't really mind making a less attractive target of myself, thanks, but you go right ahead... bait.
however
telling people that they deserve any criminal acts perpetrated against them because of their clothing is actually wrong on a functional level. clothing doesn't make rapists. blaming rape on things that don't have anything to do with the rapist just victimizes the rest of the community, too... including the rapist.
i think it's okay to ask questions like, "what made the rapist commit the rape?", but that question doesn't include the victim. they were merely present. the victim didn't do the thing that made the rapist choose to violate another human being like that. someone else did something to that rapist to make them that way.
asking how revealing the victim's clothing was is a waste of investigative resources, imo. there's an answer to "why do rapists rape", but you're not going to find it looking up girls' skirts.
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