I often find it hard to work out the line on victim blaming. On the one hand it's wrong to say she shouldn't be able to walk home at that time of and not be safe. Nobody should have to live in that kind of fear and the only person to really blame is the deranged person who took her. On the other we sadly live in a imperfect world which contains horrible people who do reprehensible things. So every thing we do comes with risk. It should be safe for young children to play in a park, but it isn't. All we can ever do mitigate risk as we see best. We've all lived under a curfew of sorts for the past year to that end, and we have seen people blaming each other every single step of the way. I agree I have heard some people saying she shouldn't have been out ect. I also agree its wrong to say that and she should have every right to be. I just don't see a world where you stop these kind of things happening anytime soon. Womens rights movements will certainly help educate people (myself included) who probably don't even realise we have taken a sexist view or postion on something. I don't think they will make the slightest bit of difference to murderers.
Correct but it is very important to remember and to realise that offering safety advice is NOT victim blaming. Telling people Sarah deserved it because she was out or she was asking for it because she was out is victim blaming. Advising women not to go out at night is a sad state of affairs but isn't victim blaming it's offering sensible advice as people need to realise the difference.
