Victim-blaming

[selfishidol]

Just copied and pasted a post I made on facebook, of all places. Feel free to offer feedback (either where I'm wrong or where my arguments could be strengthened). I'm a little nervous, I feel like I'm in the company of those who could speak with much more eloquence and authority on the subject

Comments

[corwin77]

I think you were both eloquent and chock full of information. The only thing you may wish to add, and it's something I say whenever someone says 'we must teach women how to be safe' is that the problem is we shouldn't need to be teaching women safe behaviour we should be teaching men not to rape.
Another point I liked is your invulnerability theory, since date rape and/or acquaintance rape accounts for 80% of rape on college campuses and 1 in 15 rapes of people under the age of 18.

[night__watch]

Perfectly articulate, well-stated without getting in anyone's face about it.

I don't know the context, but hopefully your clarifications will be taken the way you intend.

[curgoth]

It's a familiar problem - jargon develops because we get tired of explaining concepts every time we refer to them. But, when trying to explain to someone who isn't in the loop already, the jargon can be off-putting and confusing. For years, I had the wrong idea about The Male Gaze. And using the term "Rape Culture" with someone who doesn't get what the term means tends to derail the conversation pretty qucikly.

This is a good, low jargon explanation.