Author: By Ilona / Source: Bored Panda
You aren’t one of those people who think someone can ever be responsible for being raped or assaulted. You know that no one is ever actually ‘asking for it.’ You know that rape is always the fault of the rapist. But there are some people who haven’t quite figured it out yet.
Addressing them, New Zealand comedian Alice Brine penned a hilarious analogy, and it perfectly highlights the stupidity of victim blaming.Rape and sexual assault survivors are often asked about what they wore and if they fought back. One theory suggests that this kind of victim blaming is inherently human. It’s called the just-world bias and was first formulated by Melvin Lerner in the early 1960s. After his original experiments, Lerner suggested that seeing innocent people getting hurt with no resolution of the situation violates the observers’ sense of the world as just.
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