Lots of sensible comments here, but a couple of posters seem completely unable to grasp the difference between condoning rape and insisting on young women having personal regard for their own safety.

I won't add any further analogous examples to the ones that have been already posted, but I do think that a couple of you women need to look very carefully at your approach to personal responsibility, especially if you have daughters.

The phrase "girls can do anything" seems to be dangerously misinterpreted by some of you.

"girls can do anything"
Antiseptic,
Don't you mean "will do anything" ?

Anti
No-one here is condoning rape.

"a couple of posters seem completely unable to grasp the difference between condoning rape and insisting on young women having personal regard for their own safety."

Women and men should have personal regard to their own safety - but there will be times in life that one might drink too much or hang around with footballers (footballers are people too). People don't always act in their best interests which unless we wrap ourselves in cotton wool, there will always be an element of risk. You don't have to 'condone' rape to believe the victim is to blame.

Comments about her don't imply anything about him.

Defending her is still talking about her. Accepting that she might have been reckless and adding 'but what about him' puts the attention back on him.

individual, 'Don't you mean "will do anything"?'

The Cougars and the Groupies probably would 'do' anything and Kerri-Anne was warning football stars against them.

The WAGS say they are in it for love, not just the good times, so don't dare confuse us with 'them'.

Then there are those who believe that adult women are incapable of controlling themselves (blame it on the bottle) and men should be doing that for them,

'A spokeswoman for the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault Australia, Carolyn Worth, said the comments were insensitive and besides the point.

"Even if women have been drinking and are throwing themselves at men, high-profile sportsmen still have responsibility to act appropriately."'

The truth is that the media have beaten up many stories over the years and destroyed reputations and even lives in the process. It is all about gaining an audience.

Not sure what cougars and groupies have to do with rape. I presume cougars and groupies still have the right to abstain from sex if they choose. Mutual consent is pretty straightforward and just involves two people saying yes let's do it or one or both of the parties saying no thank you.

If a man is tipsy or flirtatious I would no sooner consider raping him than fly to mars. In fact I would run the other way rather than recklessly put myself in harms way to media assertions, allegations or inappropriate behaviour.