Blaming The Victim

McRaney (2012) provides an illustrative example:

A woman goes out to a club wearing stilettos and a miniskirt with no underwear. She gets pretty drunk and stumbles home in the wrong direction. She ends up lost in a bad neighborhood. She gets raped. Is she to blame in some way? […] People often say yes [after being presented with] similar scenarios. [They] tend to blame the victim, not because [they] are a terrible person but because [they] want to believe you are smart enough to avoid the same fate. […] The rapist is always to blame, but most awareness campaigns are targeted at women, not men.

Source: David McRaney. You are not so smart. Oneworld, 2012. [B133]