Victim blaming. Why do people need to do it?

[Happytobefree17]

Just read an article summery of an interview Chloe Ayling, the young woman who was kidnapped and released recently, gave after her ordeal.

She speaks about the horrific abuse that has been thrown her way criticising the way she dealt with the media after her release, that she shouldn't have smiled when talking to her Mum on the phone, that she shouldn't have gone back to work as a model so soon after her ordeal,she made the whole thing up for attention.

Just an absolutely shocking level of victim blaming.

The police and authorities dealing with the crime say it happened so why do people feel the need to criticise her? Hadn't she suffered enough?

Because if they victim blame they reassure themselves that it won't happen to them.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Thinking she made the whole thing up is not victim blaming, that would be saying it was her fault for being kidnapped becuase of being a model or wearing red pants or whatever.

Questioning the validity of this story is not out of the realms of being understandable. There are a lot of elements that don't (or didn't add up at the last time I looked at it) and people should be able to question without blindly screaming guilty

Exactly what commander said. They say to themselves, "that girl was walking around at night in a short skirt and that was why she was raped. I don't walk around at night in short skirts and therefore I will not be raped". It's comforting.

I think what you have described is not victim blaming but questioning the veracity of her account because of how she was afterwards. It would appear to the cynic that she turned the whole thing into a PR exercise. She has every right to do this, it was her experience and she can take from it/cope with it exactly as she wants. However, it is an unusual response so people have queried it. In a perfect world this would not happen.

Another thread on her?!

I think fair play to her. The world gave her lemons and rather than being a twee little lemonade maker she chopped those fuckers up and is having them with a side of tequila and salt.