Obviously not one in ten women are mugged and forced to have sex, so it's likely that the majority of these situations are probably date rape, or students at a party and things getting out of hand.
there was not rape charges
So my question is, do you think there's ever a point where the behavior by women has got to be part of the situation ?
Recently here on our U of O campus, three basketball players were not prosecuted for rape, but were kicked out of school. Some in the community including the victim, were outraged that rape charges were not filed. It became a big local story.
Thing is when you read about the victims behavior, while I won't use the cliché term "she was asking for it", but I will say that her reported behavior led to being in an extremely vulnerable position.
Victim blaming isn't unusual. And our rape culture in the US has people ascribing some responsibility onto the victims of this and other crimes as with 'she was in a vulnerable position.' Or, she shouldn't have walked down that dark alleyway. It's an attempt to justify the act of rape whether intentional or not, and is why there IS a rape culture increasingly common in this and other countries. It's symptomatic of a larger issue with how we treat women. If you marginalize a group, a sex, an ethnicity, crimes against them become more pallatable. "It's ok to round up and deport the Jews because they're all greedy and out to ruin Germany" was one way they marginalized the Jews in the 30s. Today, we see this tactic repeating with how a victim of rape is the one to blame for being raped because she was in a bad place, dressed provocatively, or got drunkk and flirtatious.
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