[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Thank you.

Most statistics/reports I have seen estimate that a female human being's chance of being assaulted at some point in her life simply for being "alive while female" is somewhere around 1 in 4, maybe 1 in 5.

While I see no reason to believe that the victim's sex was a factor here, the tendency to play "blame the victim" given the worldwide prevalence of violence against girls and women really hits a nerve. It always ends up being about what she shouldn't have done to avoid "provoking" whatever was done to her as though that somehow mitigates the culpability of the person who did it, when in most cases the only thing she did "wrong" was exist within arm's reach of someone who can't control their own violent impulses. It gets old, people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_phenomenon