Twitter User Fixes Victim-Blaming Rape Prevention Poster

Recycled campaign from England's National Health Service gets a facelift

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England's National Health Service recently recycled a rape prevention campaign poster first used between 2005 and 2007, featuring the line "One in three reported rapes happens when the victim has been drinking" over a black and white photo of a woman in distress. Well intentioned as it may have been, the poster makes the now-tired mistake of shifting blame for rape onto the victims. So one Twitter user decided to do something about it. 

The original poster.

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