For young women, who are endlessly bombarded with warnings of how to avoid assault, watching can feel like a perverse training manual.
Rather than admonishing women to dress a certain way, police should be warning potential offenders that they should "avoid assaulting women in order not to go to prison".
First, there is no good way to avoid assault – 90% of rapists are known to their victims, so those old chestnuts about not wearing short skirts, or going out late at night are nonsense.
Stop blaming those who get raped and teaching females what to do to avoid assault.
The reason, she said, is that campuses aware that they have a red zone problem have tended, historically, to respond primarily with tips for avoiding assault.
The idea that flirty women are "asking for it" and the misconception that it is victims who should be responsible for avoiding assault, are recurring themes in the real women's stories we've compiled over the past 10 months at the Everyday Sexism Project – a new forum for women to share their experiences of sexism.
But in the example of the computer-system hacker, information technology specialists learn something new with every attack, and they learn how to avoid future assaults and enhance security.
German military thinking, under the influence of Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen, sought, unlike the French, to avoid frontal assaults but rather to achieve an early decision by deep flanking attacks; and at the same time to make use of reserve divisions alongside regular formations from the outset of war.
However, it can be a valuable way to address the issues at hand and avoid future assaults.
The question is not how to avoid life assaults but how to receive them when they hit.
