Fox News wants to have things both ways: they want to pander to conservatives by blaming women for being raped but they also want to pander to prurient interests with women showing skin. The Fox network has always tried to do this -- condemn degenerate culture while profiting from shows that appeal to the lowest common denominator -- but now even the news arm is diving in head first.
While covering a story about an 18 year old girl who was raped and killed, Bill O'Reilly felt it was relevant to add that she was "wearing a mini skirt and a halter top" and that every "predator in the world is gonna pick that up;" oh, he also called her "moronic."
So using his logic, are all these women on Fox News with their rising mini skirts "moronic" and asking to be raped as well?
Fox's philosophy: Let's use women in short skirts to hike our ratings, and then blame 18 year old girls wearing the same skirts for being raped and killed.
Source: Subconscious Evolution
If you follow the above link, you'll see a series of pictures in which female hosts on Fox News are wearing very, very short skirts -- skirts short enough to cause them to display an awful lot of skin. Now I'm not trying to condemn that as being inherently bad, but it is a problem to have this on a network where such behavior is being condemned in others.
It's a standard feature of conservative "blame the victim" tactics to insist that women are responsible for being sexually harassed, assaulted, or even raped because of what they wear. You see it in conservative Jewish contexts, conservative Muslim contexts, and conservative Christian contexts. No matter what the religion, the arguments are the same.
It has to be conceded, though, that the explicitly religious voices tend to be consistent in their condemnations. You don't typically see a rabbi, imam, or minister condemning miniskirts just before letting a woman wearing a bikini lead everyone in a song. There might be all manner of private hypocrisy going on behind the scenes, but they seem to have enough of a sense of shame and propriety to at least try to avoid public hypocrisy.
Which seems to be a lot more than can be said for Fox News, huh?
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