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Originally Posted by Frownland
Cue HHBH.
I'm guessing that the victim blamers think that victims are deserving of their unfortunate events because it was possible for the victim to prevent the situation. Not going to parties and staying sober are ways to prevent being raped, for example. It's still a ridiculous argument, since it's the same as saying "if you didn't want to get attacked by a shark, you shouldn't have gone swimming at the beach," but I think that's where the mindset comes from. That and general misogyny, preference for the rapists, or some other factor that deludes a moron's manner of thinking, that is.
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Wanna hear a funny story? At Bonnaroo (a festival presumably about music, but really just about getting wasted), drug peddlers would be lined up shouting whatever they were selling. Some industrious hippies had a real zinger of an sales pitch, "ROOFIES AND VIAGRA, BANG-A-ROO!"
Anyways, Frownland, what this thread is actually about is an exercise of Westerner's circle jerking with horror at the realization that "OMG, TANNER, DID YOU KNOW OUR VALUES AREN'T UNIVERSALLY HELD?!??!" It's the sort of casual eurocentrism that dominates any discussion of the other on this board.