plus ca change (jamais)

As for the recent poll that says a majority believe rape victims had it coming; Jezebel nailed it today:

Harrison may be right that women engage in victim-blaming as a way of feeling safe, convincing themselves that only people who act a certain way get raped. It's possible, too, that a decline in the numbers of young women who identify with feminism have made more young people convinced that a woman who wears a short skirt is "asking for it." Natasha Walter has written that young British women find such activities as pole dancing and posing in skimpy outfits empowering — but at least according to the survey, they seem to think these very activities make it okay for men to rape them. Do 18-24-year-old women believe that "ownership" of their sexuality — the freedom to dress and dance sexily if it makes them feel good — also means ownership of rape? Do they think rape is an acceptable consequence of free sexual expression? Whatever the case, the survey revealed another disturbing statistic: more than 10% of respondents weren't sure they'd report being raped to the police, and 2% said they definitely wouldn't. In a society where victims are blamed for as little as "flirting" with a rapist, it's all too easy to see why.

Consider also in the US women are given out sexual assault prevention advice such as, just don't use elevators or stairs, ever. We have a long way to go, we have not even begun.