"Don't walk alone late at night."
"Don't get so drunk that you can't control yourself or the situation."
"Don't wear revealing clothing."
Those are three of the most common pieces of advice given to most women. They put the onus on the woman to prevent her own sexual assault. But here's the problem with advice like that. So Sally remembers every one of those pieces of advice. She doesn't walk alone late at night, she monitors her alcohol intake, and she dresses conservatively. Sally, on paper, is safe.
But Sally hasn't stopped a rapist from raping. Sally has only stopped a rapist from raping Sally. Somewhere out there Betty perhaps hasn't heard those pieces of advice, or hasn't taken them on board, or circumstances have rendered those pieces of advice impossible to follow. And Sally might be safe, but there are still rapists out there, so Betty is not safe.
Pamphlets like the one in the OP are designed to turn this dangerous thinking on its head. We as a society need to stop handing out advice that puts the responsibility on the woman to prevent violent crime happening to her. It's like a PP said - pamphlets like these are satire that is designed to examine the way we think. Thanks to cory - I'm going to repost what you said:
"it is meant to influence the rest of society to think twice before they assume it is the woman's fault:
to influence the judge who might give a lenient sentence "because with a skirt like that/being out late at night she was clearlyt asking for it/he couldn't help himself"
to influence the policeman who might be interviewing a woman bringing a charge of rape
to influence the flatmates/other people at the party who don't interfere to stop a potential rape
to influence the workmates who speak around young men as if you really did not have the alternative of keeping it in your trousers"
Think about rapists like Brock Turner. His trial was riddled with pleas for us to remember HIS future that was being ruined by the trial, to remember HIS potential that was being squandered, to please think of HIS mental health and well being because the negativity was really upsetting him (this taken from the actual letter his father wrote). This is the society we live in, where people are more concerned with the feelings, the future, the potential of the rapist who CHOSE to rape, instead of the victim. What about the victim's future that had already being ruined by what Brock Turner CHOSE to do to her? Her potential that was being squandered because of what Brock Turner CHOSE to do to her? Her mental health and well being that had been destroyed by what Brock Turner CHOSE to do to her?
That's why we need satire like the pamphlet in the OP. This society needs a massive shake up to reboot the way we think about sexual assault and rape. It is never the victim's fault they were raped, it is the rapists fault for CHOOSING to rape. And I'm not some sort of wide eyed optimist who thinks that this mindset is going to magically stop rapists from raping. I'm not that naive. I just believe that if we as a society collectively decide to stop condoning rape and rapists in the way our society currently does, we might start to get somewhere.