Rather than telling children not to talk to strangers, we should tell strangers to not dress or act in an alluring way that piques the interest of our children. We need to crack down on assholes who don’t follow traffic rules, and so on until the world is completely safe for children to play in.

The fact that we need batter the idea into our children’s heads that they need to live in constant fear of being run over, killed, or molested is archaic. One could go so far as to say this act of victim blaming is no different from the men telling women not to dress provocatively to avoid being raped.