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Thank you! This victim-blaming nonsense is so infuriating to see. As long as people are willing to be dishonest, this same thing can happen in any area where sp
by dpkonofa 3y ago
Thank you! This victim-blaming nonsense is so infuriating to see. As long as people are willing to be dishonest, this same thing can happen in any area where spaces are designated for certain people. The argument the parent is making is essentially akin to "maybe they should have changed the dress code if they didn't want people being raped" instead of blaming rapists.
- brickening 3y agoWe can simultaneously both blame rapists and have effective safeguarding policy that minimizes the risk of rapists getting access to victims. As an example, prisons almost always have a policy of sex segregation, with separate estates for each sex. The female prison estate is designated solely for female prisoners, and the male estate solely for the males. This physical separation safeguards the female inmates from male inmates, many of whom are very dangerous and have already raped. In recent years, a handful of jurisdictions have experimented with allowing some male prisoners in the female prison estate, which resulted in sexual assaults and rapes of women prisoners, and even some pregnancies. The rapist men are to blame of course, but they were enabled in their crimes by a set of horrifying policy changes that put so many vulnerable women at a hugely increased risk. It's not victim-blaming to point this out and insist that this broken policy be changed.
- dpkonofa 3y agoYou literally just said “they were enabled in their crimes”. That is victim-blaming.
- brickening 3y ago[dead]