Why are victims so often blamed for rape?

What’s “her” motive in the situation? What drives the rapist? And who has control?

I’ve been thinking about this as two men are sentenced for joining eighteen others to brutally rape a 16-year-old Richmond, California girl.

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She wore a lavender dress to the homecoming dance. But she left early and began dialing her dad to pick her up. And then a schoolmate invited her to join some friends who were drinking on school property, and who encouraged her to drink too much. She said they were polite — at first.

She doesn’t remember anything after one kicked her in the stomach and she fell over.

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