CBC Victim-Blaming!

In our ultra-feminist world, telling a woman to be careful at night, go out with a partner, not to dress inappropriately, and other forms of sage advice in order to avoid being sexually assaulted is called blaming the victim. They say “don’t tell women not to do certain things, tell men not to r@pe!” (I use the @ to avoid having it picked up by the wrong system). But what if we applied this logic to other scenarios, where any advice is perceived as “blame” when we tell a potential victim how to stay safe. To bring this way of thinking to its logical conclusion, where telling anybody who could be victimized advice to avoid being a victim is considered victim-blaming let look at blatant examples of CBC Victim-Blaming:

 

Don’t tell people to watch out for car dealership scams, tell dealerships to stop scamming!

 

Don’t tell pedestrians to be careful around cars, tell drivers to stop hitting them!

 

Don’t tell people to be careful of high-risk offender, tell offender to stop being high-risk!

 

Don’t tell drivers to be careful when driving, tell roads not to be slippery!