Originally Posted by Baneblade
And what evidence is there supporting what she is saying? I'm not taking sides any more than I did over Martin's death. I don't know what he did or didn't do, and I'm not going to say he did or didn't do something. I merely suggest possibilities.
For all we know, she started it.
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I don't think you realize that what you're saying is victim blaming. You're lapsing into the unfair "she was asking for it" accusation. Again, you're absolutely
right that for us to assume Zimmerman is guilty there needs to be evidence presented of that fact. But to suggest that she was 'asking for it' is victim-blaming misogyny.
Part of the reason why something like half of all rapes go unreported, and why most men fail to recognize that 1 in 5 women are raped in their lifetimes, is because we live in a culture that defaults to "she must have been asking for it" as a response to a rape accusation.