You really need some sarcasm lessons.  Really...

I know this topic was started a long time ago and I only read maybe the first 10/15 responses (plus the most recent ones), but I would like to weigh in. I just saw Thelma and Louise tonight for the first time and (spoiler alert) what causes the rest of the action in the movie is that Thelma is almost raped by a man at a bar and Louise shoots and kills him.

Thelma started drinking Wild Turkey as soon as she got to the bar even though it is heavily implied that she is a subdued housewife 99% of the time (i.e. I don't know how much she drinks/how well she can hold her liquor but it is implied not very well.) She is also dressed more provacatively than Louise though it's 1991, so nothing like what we might imagine now. She's got bare arms and mostly bare shoulders and is showing some cleavage and the slits in her skirt are thigh-high.

A charming man approached her and sweet talked her into dancing with him (he also bought her and Louise drinks). They start dancing and a montage occurs wherein it is shown that they were at the bar for probably three or four hours, dancing and drinking. Louise dances rather politely with the men who approach her while Thelma sticks tight to Harlan and dances very sexually with him. She is also shown to have a beer in her hand while she's dancing, which gives the "lots of drinking" implication (though she took like four shots at the beginning of the scene so it's safe to say that she was rather intoxicated).

Louise thinks it is time to go and tells Thelma that she is going to go to the bathroom and to be ready to leave when she returns. While she's in the ladies room, Thelma feels sick on the dance floor and Harlan escorts her outside for some fresh air. She wanders around rather drunkenly but is feeling better. Harlan makes advances on her, which she politely rejects. But then he is forceful with her, making her kiss him and trying to push her skirt up her leg. Eventually this turns into a violent attack, both physically and sexually. Just as he is about to push his dick in, Louise approaches with the gun and gets him to back off. He does but can't leave it at that - he makes some crude remarks causing the already furious Louise to shoot and kill him off of instinct.

Louise says they can't go to the police because no one saw Harlan try to rape Thelma but everyone saw Thelma dancing all up on Harlan.

Here is my argument: No one deserves to be raped. However we as women know how often rape or attempted rape/sexual assault occurs. If we want to avoid it, we cannot act in such a manner that will allow it to happen. Yes, men should be able to control themselves. But we know that some of them will not. So we shouldn't get so drunk that we can't fight back. We shouldn't separate ourselves from our friends. We shouldn't act like we're going to sleep with the guy at the end of the night if we're not planning on doing so. I'm not even really talking about the way a woman is dressed but more about her behavior and the consequences associated with such behavior and decisions. Thelma made a decision to drink heavily when it's something she isn't used to doing. Thelma made a decision to cling tight to Harlan rather than dancing with several other men or hanging back with Louise for a few songs. Thelma made a decision to walk out of that bar alone with a stranger when she knew her friend was in the bathroom. I am not saying that the fact that she was almost raped was her fault, but I'm saying she could have done more to prevent it from happening. As unfair as it may seem, women have to be smart about what we do when we go out because in most cases there is more of a danger for us of being raped or sexually assaulted in some way.

So while I'm not saying any woman who was raped was at fault, I am saying that, in many cases, something could have been done on the woman's part to prevent that rape. And of course there are always exceptions in which there was nothing she could have done. Finally I do want to reiterate that I am also not saying that anyone deserves to be raped either. My point is merely that women should do as much as they can to prevent themselves from being raped because that alone could save them from suffering from that.

It includes every woman old enough to cook and clean.

Only women the man wants to rape.

How does a woman know a rape is imminent?  
Again facts are that women who are raped are more likely to be raped by someone they know and trust.
Rape is one of the only crimes where we try to blame the victim.