The equivalent would be downvoting a SA survivor for telling other women to be more aware and not to put themselves in a vulnerable position. The poster in question isnt pro-bikers-getting-murdered-by-cars, theyre living in the real world where we must take precautions at an individual level because society fails to protect us.
The equivalent would be downvoting a SA survivor for telling other women to be more aware and not to put themselves in a vulnerable position.
Yeah, that’s victim-blaming. I’m not saying caution is a bad thing, of course it isn’t. But what this kind of rhetoric does is frame things like the responsibility of the victims. That’s why the other commenter got downvoted.
The equivalent would be downvoting a SA survivor for telling other women to be more aware and not to put themselves in a vulnerable position. The poster in question isnt pro-bikers-getting-murdered-by-cars, theyre living in the real world where we must take precautions at an individual level because society fails to protect us.
Yeah, that’s victim-blaming. I’m not saying caution is a bad thing, of course it isn’t. But what this kind of rhetoric does is frame things like the responsibility of the victims. That’s why the other commenter got downvoted.