Oh George!
Finally, my eyes are open! Thank you!
For hundreds, no ...thousands of years we have been taught to blame the victim . This logic has been applied to all sorts of victims - poor people don't work, of course! - but most especially to female victims of sexual assault.
It's the woman's fault if a man harasses her, assaults her or rapes her. Of course it is! I mean, those skirts! SO revealing! And shoes and makeup and (amazing but true) some women even drink alcohol. No wonder all those pure, virtuous and wonderful men act like beasts around them. If only they would wear hijabs and burqas. Well.... except rape happens there too. Maybe they should just avoid ever being in the presence of men. That way the men in their families wouldn't have to hunt them down and kill them for besmirching the family honor.
So. That much is clear. Blame the woman for the rape.
But you, George, have shown us more. Yes. You have shown us that, by attempting (in however meager a way) to help the victims we have made them the victors! Indeed! Being raped is now a privilege; a coveted status.
Those women! So tricky! They've managed not only to somehow make it seem like it might, just might, be the rapist's fault for rape, but they've managed to make themselves win by being raped!
It's so clever that you wonder how those women (who are, of course, stupider than us males) did it. You wonder, until you realize that they must have had the help of some men (traitors!)
Amazing!
No, George, privilege isn't something you get by being a victim. You, George, are enormously privileged: You are a heterosexual White male in a society dominated by (you see what's coming, don't you?) heterosexual White males. I share those qualities with you. But, unlike you, I recognize that they give me privilege.
Now, some people have taken to calling you stupid. That's a mistake. That gives you too much credit. You aren't stupid. Stupid people deserve our pity and our help. You are not stupid, you are malign. You deserve only our scorn.
You have mine.