Victim-blaming is more problematic the more harm the victim has suffered. If you said #2 to someone who had been seriously injured, that would not be at all ok, and if you said #1 to someone who really could not afford to replace their bike you'd be an asshole.
And the set of behaviors that are considered by large groups of people to be reasonable and obvious precautions for women to take against rape is huge, ever-mutating, includes mutually-exclusive things, and is tenuously, at best, connected to actual likelihood of rape.
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Victim-blaming is more problematic the more harm the victim has suffered. If you said #2 to someone who had been seriously injured, that would not be at all ok, and if you said #1 to someone who really could not afford to replace their bike you'd be an asshole.
And the set of behaviors that are considered by large groups of people to be reasonable and obvious precautions for women to take against rape is huge, ever-mutating, includes mutually-exclusive things, and is tenuously, at best, connected to actual likelihood of rape.