Comment: Victim blaming at the heart of rape case ‘thong’ comment

My thong days are long gone. But for women everywhere this week the revelation that a teenager’s choice of underwear — in this case a thong with a lace front — signalled an availability for sex, was simply too much.

The episode surrounds a 27-year-old-man who had denied raping a 17-year-old girl in a laneway in Cork. He was found not guilty by the jury of eight men and four women at the Central Criminal Court.