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“...blaming the victims, that is still something reserved for conservative women.” He lost me at this snarky remark. It’s probably his underlying message and it’s not true. There are people (men and women) who call themselves conservative who are judgmental, that’s where any truth to this ends As a conservative woman, let me say this. In a family of five girls, there are a few rare stories of perv victimhood. One occurred during a ski weekend when the escort/date saw the behavior, stopped it. After it got reported to our brother he went to the perv with threats my father, a Marine, said “what the hell was she doing going away with those jerks?” We we’re led by example to avoid situations. At work, in military uniform, was harassed by a perverted officer. Just doing my job, creepy guy is at fault. The men in our family are taught to be gentlemen. Which is why, in travels in my military career, when I’m out at night unescorted, as soon as happy hour turns to post-crud sloppiness, I️ recognize non-gentlemanliness, assess it for what it is and split with friends for the movies or dinner. We’re out of there How much is it the victims fault? How much is it the poor upbringing of the offender? Is it at work,? Is it out late, drunkenness, immodesty? Drunkenness? There are many factors. To say that conservative women blame the victim is shallow. Conservatism is common sense. Common sense applied to these cases, will always blame the offender. To wat extent the victim tempted the offender is an assessment made for the purpose of avoiding certain situations as the case may be, and not to apply guilt or moral superiority. Common sense which, in its judgmental tone, this article lacks

“...blaming the victims, that is still something reserved for conservative women.”

‘He lost me at this snarky remark.’

When I read it, my first thought is “why is he saying that about conservative women” - they don’t immediately blame the victims. Then it occurred to me that he means leftists defending their own by attacking non-leftist (i.e., conservative) women (think Hillary and her gang tearing down Clinton’s babes, one by one).

Not well-written by the author here, in any case.