In follow-up to my previous post (more triggers)

A few points:
•Rape is not something that happens automatically, like a Pavlovian response. It’s a decision. It’s a choice. Women do not just trigger some rape reflex by being in a crowd/bar/locker room. Men decide to rape them.
•If rape were an inevitable result of women being around men, why should the women be the ones who restrict their behavior? Why don’t we call for putting blindfolds on men when they go out to bars so they can’t see anyone who will trigger their supposedly uncontrollable impulse to rape?
•There is no circumstance under which someone deserves rape. Even rotten horrible people don’t “have it coming.” It’s not a punishment for sin, it’s a crime.
•The fact that a woman is sexually active doesn’t mean she loses her right to say no. The fact she was in a crowd of men, or in a hotel room with one man, doesn’t mean she loses her right to say no. The fact she might have said yes previously doesn’t mean she loses her right to say no.
•Arguments that rape is equivalent to theft—e.g. that Lara Logan going out in Egypt was like wearing a Rolex in a high-crime area—are bullshit. In the first place, rape is a much uglier crime than robbery. In the second place, people who get robbed, even if they did something stupid (left the car unlocked, say), never receive the kind of bullshit rape victims routinely receive. People don’t suggest they invited the theft, wanted the theft or that they had it coming.
All of which should be blindingly obvious. But there are too many people who don’t realize it.