A man was cleared of rape after a lawyer presented the rape victim's panties in court as evidence that the girl wanted sex which is why she visited the man in a sexy see-through pant. This has angered women all over the world and they have taken to social media to share photos of their panties with the hashtag #ThiIsNotConsent. A 27-year-old rape suspect was acquitted of rape by an Irish court last week after a 17-year-old girl’s "thong with a lace front" was presented as part of the defence’s closing address. In her closing address to the jury, Elizabeth O’Connell SC told jurors they should consider the underwear the girl wore on the night of the alleged rape, the Irish Examiner reported.She told the Central Criminal Court in Cork:Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone?You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.Noeline Blackwell, the head of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, said she was not surprised that the teenager’s underwear was the focus for the defence. 
She told The Independent:The reference to the girl’s underwear and the assumption and inference that the jury was being invited to draw – that because she was dressed like that she was asking for sex – does not surprise us.We accompany people to court and the whole time we see rape stereotypes used to discredit complainants and to enforce elementsof the defendant’s case.The barrister’s comments sparked a furious backlash on social media as women accused them of victim blaming and shared photos of their own underwear to make it clear that what a woman wears does not equal consent. They used the hashtag #ThisIsNot consent. 
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