• Fri, Mar 4 2011  What Happens When You Victim-Blame for Crimes
Other Than Rape?  It appears that up in Canada, victim-blaming
in rape cases is just as popular a sport as it is everywhere
else in the world. CNN reports that during the trial of a man
who threw a woman into the middle of a dirt road and sexually
assaulted her, a Canadian judge said that the attack may have
been caused by the victim wearing heels, make-up and a tube top
with no bra, and that “sex was in the air” after she had met her
attacker at a bar. Because of all that, after finding her rapist
guilty, he sentenced him to two years of house arrest, and no
jail time.  Rather than give voice to the overwhelming rage I
now feel, though, I’m going to try something a little different
instead. I’m going to try to rationally, calmly and objectively
apply the same logic that’s often used to blame rape victims to
other crimes, and see if maybe there’s just some logic that I’m
missing! Just for the sake of argument, I’m going to make the
victims male: