Rape is never the victims fault.

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242. I understand your absentee stint on MIRT left you limited awareness of what transpired there

but the administrators changed the rules a while back and that reduced the ambiguity in terms of longer term members since MIRt only received notifications of 6-0 hides of members with over 100 posts, as opposed to all TOS hides, as was the case when that particular post of yours was hidden. You earned that hide, which was an egregious TOS violation. So like all TOS violations, I voted to refer it upstairs. You apparently think the fact you signed up for MIRT but didn't do the job made you exempt from such things. It does not.

Rather than blaming me, perhaps you should reflect on why saying that rape prevention campaigns amounted to "haranguing men" was so offensive. The irony in such a position is that it assumes that any mention of rape is directed at all men, as though all men are rapists, something no one who designs those PSAs actually thinks. Normal people see such things and assume it is directed at rapists. And then there are others who filter the entire world through their own ego. They assume everything is about them, and if it isn't they make it about themselves. Your poutage over that one hide is getting old. I wasn't the alerter, and a jury found it every bit as offensive as I did.

To top it off, you blocked someone from your men's group who challenged you on the clearly false nature of your gossip about me. If you are going to enforce a rule that hosts should be able to gossip about other members without being called on it, you should really adjust the SOP accordingly.

That hide, however, does actually relate to the subject of this OP, since it blames rape victims for having the audacity to discuss rape in public rather than the view some seem to have that the appropriate role for rape in the public domain is as a subject of pornography for male titillation.