I recently started getting emails from Change.org and one interesting article that relates to our forums and Shelley's ministry is the one titled, "Bystanders reluctant to help woman dressed 'provocatively'".

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/bystanders_reluctant_to_help_wo...

"ABC News recently ran a segment of its series "What Would You Do?" in which hidden cameras filmed customers in a restaurant to see how they'd react to an obviously battered woman being pushed around by her boyfriend. The series judges people's reactions to various staged different situations: a bike being robbed in the park, a clerk giving a blind customer the wrong change, etc.

In this case, most people moved to help the woman being harassed by her boyfriend ... unless the woman was dressed "provocatively," which in this case meant in a short black dress with straps, the kind easily seen on handfuls of college girls heading to campus parties on a Friday night. The ABC clip is horrifying — customers step into the situation in outrage when the couple is dressed conservatively, sometimes physically separating the man and the woman — but when the woman is dressed in the short black dress (the man, on the contrary, is in a suit), no one moves...."

You can read the rest from the website.

Not surprising, but definitely heartbreaking and disturbing. Even women watching the man act abusive to the "provocatively" dressed woman did not think the woman deserved help. Ughh. Definitely reveals the wrong beliefs and attitudes of the heart, of both males and females!