[Gaffer]

“Saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying is like saying a short skirt is a trigger for rape,” she said. “It’s flawed logic; it doesn’t make any sense.”

A male would be viscerally excoriated if he said the same thing, "she was just asking for it, dressed like that."

[cripplecreek]

I stirred up a nest of feminists on twitter a few days ago when I suggested that dildos should be banned because they’re just a representation of a “rape tool” like a toy gun is a representation of a “murder tool”.

[Altariel]

In that case, he’d be making an excuse.

The mother’s argument is that it’s not an excuse.