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Originally Posted by sarettah
in the past, victims of rape were often considered to be the cause of the rape because of how they dressed, or acted, or what they said, or any other number of reasons that would cause a man to lose control and rape her.
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first there is this psychological phenomena!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
"in the past" << when ?
There is several reasons why people could use this excuse:
- you are guilty and you try to avoid to be punished
- some people want to prevent the society to change (shorter skirts for example), so if some people think that you shouldn't wear miniskirts then they will try to rationalize what happened and use you behavior to punish you to want a different society.
- it is easier to handle: if you have no evidence of what happened, the easiest solution is to deny the problem.
- other things that involves (for example) that a family should protect their children, so if they are victims, it means they fail.