The introduction of rape as a metaphor serves an emotional purpose, not a logical one.
Working on encryption software : Being questioned at the border !:: Wearing a bikini : getting raped.
It's a lazy argument and he was right to point it out.
Working on encryption software : Being questioned at the border !:: Wearing a bikini : getting raped.
It's a lazy argument and he was right to point it out.
I think it's the best known example, and hence the best illustration, of 'blaming the victim'. I would have used that description, were it not for the fact that I couldn't remember the name of the fallacy at the time. I remembered it after a good night's sleep. If you wish to attribute my usage of an example to lazyness, so be it.
I wasn't going to let "You get temporarily detained at the border? Well, you must've said something that alerted them." slide and I don't see how it is logically different from "You got raped? Well, you must've worn something that aroused them."