Women are not liberated — they are still enslaved

AS a pychotherapist and a woman, I was saddened to see your front page article headlined ‘Rape: Our Blame Culture’ (March 26). Coincidentally, that morning the Ray D’Arcy show on Today FM featured a discussion about Ireland’s first page three girl.

It was timely that the day’s media coverage highlighted the fact that rape victims were held accountable for the crime committed against them, while simultaneously hoisting a young girl onto a pedastal because she poses nude. What is the connection between the two? Well, it is simply this.

As an astute Today FM listener correctly pointed out, women today are judged on their looks, their perceived sexiness, as compared with or contrasted to the various images with which we are all being bombarded every day.