Where's the line between advising someone to take steps to protect themselves and victim-blaming?

[puddleglum]

@SmartAleq

Yeah, to any man who gets tempted AGAIN to try to equate rape to whatever property crime suits his fancy, try this–substitute “torturing a small child with pliers and red hot metal and knives for several hours” instead of whatever bloodless, essentially harmless crime you’re imagining. Imagine the blood and the screaming and the smells as the child shits herself, imagine him crying for his mother to come save him. There you go, that’s a whole lot closer to the reality of what a rapist does to his victim. Then see if you can put yourself into those shoes and imagine the situation that would lead to you doing that to a child. Women aren’t cars, or bags of money, or any other type of property and if you can’t see why it’s a huge problem that simply huge swathes of men are able to dissassociate and dehumanize women to the point where they think it’s a fair comparison to equate car theft to rape then, well, see a fucking therapist.

In this analogy is it okay to tell kids not to get into cars with strangers, or is that victim blaming?