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America has this weird thing where pointing out that the victim wasn't completely robbed of their agency and made some dumb decisions == victim blaming. Especially in incidents related to sex.

To recap, someone commented that there's a lesson to be re-iterated here about sharing videos, and someone else got offended by that. It's weird to imagine a society where people get offended when presented with instructions for how not to fall victim to the same situation in the future.

The victims aren't being blamed. The legal system worked as intended. But if you don't want porno videos of you showing up on the internet, don't share any. No amount of laws or enforcement will make those videos go away now. Even middle schoolers are taught this in sex-ed.


You have to look at that in historical terms. Until very recently the vast majority of sexual exploitation cases where dismissed using a form of victim blaming, normally by pointing out the agency the victims still had but didn't use.

I'm not saying you're wrong but people are understandably hyper sensitive to those points as until very recently they would be used to dismiss victims. It'll take a period of time (atleast a decade, likely a generation) where victims are regularly listened to before that sensitivity starts to go away.




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