alerted by ginmar

[novapsyche]

A third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for being raped if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests. (Note: this survey took place in Britain)

Also, as ginmar notes: "Why... do we keep saying 'when women get raped'? It's passive voice without an actual person doing the raping. Why is that, huh?"

Comments

[pachamama.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Take the sentence in the post:

A third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for being raped if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests

-- it could just as easily be phrased:

A third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for a man raping her if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests.

Likewise, you could just as easily talk about "the time when X stabbed me" as opposed to "the time when I was stabbed" and still be talking about you and the stabbing, not about X.

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

What do you disagree with?

I don't actually see any contradiction between your reply and my position, so it's likely that I was unclear.