would be a picture of an ordinary-looking woman with really bad hair puking in a toilet the morning after. Not some perfectly hair-free model with her long perfect legs artfully arranged and her perfect "panties" (a word I detest) perfectly stretched across her perfectly manicured feet, in the same faceless way as any porn image.
Meanwhile, though, there does have to be some non-blamiing way to enhance women's ability and desire to protect themselves. So much of what needs to be done is so deep and wide, and so part and parcel of the whole big ball of wax problem -- women assigning value to themselves only as sexual, women as pleasers, etc. etc. (to mention only how women themselves need to change, and women do need to change) -- that it's hard to know where to start.
It's like gun violence and crime in a way though, or any other big social problem. Yes, there are the "root causes" and the things that have to be done about them -- social inequality, when it comes to crime, and women's inequality, when it comes to sexual violence. But can nothing be done by way of harm reduction in the meantime? Restrict access to firearms, you'll reduce the incidence of gun violence. Persuade women to stop drinking themselves stupid, you'll reduce the incidence of date rape. Not all date rape, and it won't get women equal pay, but it might mean fewer women get sexually assaulted by men they know.
A collage of the faces of victims, women of all appearances, and the faces of the men who attacked them (or reasonable facsimiles of both, you know), nice ordinary non-bogeymen looking guys, you know, might have more actual effect. She trusted him; he raped her. Trust your instincts: if he makes you nervous, don't put yourself at risk. And don't get so drunk you can't hear your instincts or act on them when you have to.
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