This is a horrible thought to have in your mind; victims are to blame for crimes? A sad comment on your beliefs.
Sometimes a victim is a contributory factor. Sometimes the only factor. A man attempting to commit a crime gets killed. He is the victim, surely, but if it were not for his original act of committing the cirme he would not be a victim. It's perfectly appropriate to blame him even though he is the victim.
The reporter knew what was going on in Tahrir Square. She knew that these were muslim men who didn't have the same opinion men have of women in Times Square New York. She went in to a war zone, high heels and all, and thought it was going to be a party.
Both Matthew Shepherd and Lawrence King knew quite well that when a woman says no, it means no, and if she should take out brass knuckles and a .38 special to enforce her "no" she is within her rights. They just never thought those rights would extend to men who say no.
Do they? I've never asked just assumed perhaps wrongly, that a straight man even possesses the right to say no to the advances of a gay man. Maybe they don't.
There is no evidence Shepard, the victim, in any way attempted to force himself on the scumbags that killed him; he may have flirted. The low life slime that brutalized and murdered him might well have taken offense at something you did or said also. Keep that in mind, as one killer casually told me, years ago, WHY he killed someone....."He was in the way....."
The defense was "gay rage". Which means Shepherd harrased these two guys. You might want to review the trial.
This is NOT a reason to commit murder in such a horrendous manner. That was too awful, beyond imagining. The men should not have been so interested in their game of pool that they couldn't leave. I have more sympathy for Brian McInerney who tried every way in the world to end King's continuous harassment.
I've talked to many MANY killers, many serial killers. Anyone can be in the way and be dispatched expeditiously. Most killers though, kill because they like it.
No should mean no, whether it's a man or a woman. After all if a woman took out brass knuckles and a .38 special because some man couldn't accept no for an answer would you blame her?