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Anonymous wrote:55 pages and I'd be curious to know how many of these posts are placing the blame squarely where it belongs (with the suspect) and how many are faulting the residents of the house.
Why do people keep saying this is victim blaming? They are NOT to blame. Having conversations about ways to reduce your risks of bad things happening is not blaming. It does not mean you deserve what happens.
I don't walk through dark alleys alone at night. Is it my fault if I'm robbed or killed? Of course not! But there are steps I can take to reduce the risk of a bad outcome so that hopefully I don't become a victim.
If he was stalking at least one of these girls chances are no matter what they did it wouldn't matter. BUT as a general principle I still lock my door when I leave my house. I don't deserve to be robbed and am not to blame if some breaks in, but I can reduce that risk.
Having conversations about ways to reduce your risks IN THIS THREAD implies that the people in the home could have done something (locked doors, called the police immediately, lived on campus, not partied, not had public Insta accounts, installed security if they were aware they had a stalker) to prevent this from happening.
That's why.
You aren't good at nuance. Victim blaming is literally saying "it's their fault they were murdered." Nobody has said that here. Nobody.
The nuance you're missing is this: in discussions about this crime, people are asking why they wouldn't have locked their doors, why the survivor didn't call the police, etc. Posters are discussing the household dynamics as a way of answering those questions. These discussions are a way to make sense of things.
These discussions will most likely get young people to start locking their doors. Maybe it will get roommates to communicate with each other about houseguests.
YOU don’t understand nuance.
Victim blaming is framing a post-crime discussion about what the VICTIM could have done differently to prevent themselves from having been victimized.
The whole premise is off. The perpetrator’s behavior should be the focus. Otherwise, you are IN ESSENCE (here is where the nuance comes in) talking about how the VICTIMS dropped the ball. And if only they had not, they would fine today.
Not appropriate.
(Nor should females have to plan their lives around steering clear of incels/stalkers/
rapists and other varieties of male predators.)