Hmm. You know, I honestly don't think I think of any form of clothing making me feel "safe" unless we mean in some sort of practical sense, ie. a raincoat will keep me "safe" from the rain. The outfits in which I feel sexy vary from jeans and a perfect top to a minidress and knee boots, so I guess onlookers might interpret some of them as "safe" and others as not, but my brain just doesn't work that way, because I've been a feminist for far too long and read far too many statistics about rape and had far too much life experience to think that what I'm wearing will make a damn bit of difference in whether or not some asshole targets me for assault.

I dunno, am I really that unusual here? To me what this study basically tells us is that women in countries with a decent level of gender equality are less likely to buy into the myths of rape culture than women in countries where gender equality is a sad joke or a pipe dream. It's not that women in countries with a high level of gender equality are less likely to be harrassed, I don't think, so much as that they are less likely to have grown up being fed a bunch of bullshit about how rape is their fault unless they work 24/7 to prevent it, including by not "sending out the wrong signals".