“Ashifa Kassam of the Guardian reports that the city of Valladolid in Spain was covered in bras earlier this week, hung by protesters who are demanding the resignation of their mayor, Francisco Javier León de la Riva. Riva recently went on a Spanish radio show and mistook it for Reddit. “I have qualms about getting into an elevator,” said the conservative mayor. “Imagine you get into an elevator and there is a girl who is out to get you, she enters with you, tears off her bra or skirt and flees shouting that you have tried to assault her. Beware this sort of thing.”

During the same interview, he also said, “You can’t have a police officer in every park,” and therefore, “At 6 in the morning, a young woman should be careful of where she goes.”

Besides being horrible, Riva’s comments are also illogical. Why should a woman be careful in the park if she is actually the aggressor, ready to rip off her undergarments at any moment to frame a man for rape? Riva switches from blaming victims for their own rapes to suggesting that the rapes aren’t even happening seamlessly, I’ll give him that.”

John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Gina Grad (http://www.twitter.com/ginagrad) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) discuss.

* Read more here from http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/08/27/francisco_javier_le_n_de_la_riva_s_comments_about_rape_inspire_bra_protest.htm