A friend posted a story to his Facebook wall this evening about a boy who threatened to shoot a girl who had turned him down, repeatedly, when he asked her out. When the boy was arrested for having a gun...the girl was vilified by her classmates for not just 'saying yes' and going out with him.
After my sigh of 'this happens all the time' cleared my lips, I responded thusly: Unfortunately the victim blaming is so ingrained into society it will be nigh impossible to eradicate. The idea that we, whatever gender we identify as, are solely responsible for our actions is foreign to so many of all generations. And society in mass propagates the idea through all forms of media. This is not a new thing, victim blaming, the response of standing up and shouting 'Fuck you,' to those who blame the wrong person is also not new. What needs to happen is a concentrated effort on the largest scale to force the victim-blamers to see that what they are doing not only harms the victim but also the perpetrator.
Thoughts?
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