There is no 'by extension', Marco.
Society (by means of individuals and through its institutions, agents and agencies) has a duty to make sure men don't rape.
Women should be able to walk anywhere without fear. The fact that we do fear and that the crime of rape is frequently committed is an indictment on society but it is mostly an indictment on those sections of society and its institutions, agents and agencies that continue to promote the idea that hatred of, fear of and violence against women are acceptable or even a good and necessary thing.
In both cases a person other than the rapist was responsible for the woman being there. In one case you blame that person, in the other you don't.
Do you find twisting yourself into a pretzel shape uncomfortable?
Let's try this again GySgtHartman.
In Scenario 1 the woman is thrown out of the taxi in a place and at a time which any person with the smallest speck of cop on would understand to be a bad place and a bad time for a woman, reality being what it is. That person is therefore equally as morally responsible for the crime that followed as the rapist was because it was his will that she was there, not hers - the woman was there against her will. She wanted to stay in the taxi and continue to her destination. He chose to operate according to s set of values directly opposed to concern when he threw her out of the taxi.
Would she have been raped that night if he had made a different choice?
In the second Scenario, the woman chose to walk there as is her right, and it is entirely the fault of the rapist (and the fault of society that encourages and permits the crime of rape) that she was raped. She has an inalienable right to walk where she chooses to walk.
you are suggesting that women take no responsibility for themselves.
That they if they don't keep money/travel card in their purse responsibility for their safety suddenly moves onto someone else.
GySgtHartman - I repeat, women have an inalienable right to walk wherever they wish to walk, any time, day or night.
This is because they are equal under the law and in possession of civil and human rights. It is not the fault of a woman if a criminal rapes them. Men do not own or rule certain patches of the city. Women do not owe men any type of behaviour or deportment and if they don't comply then they can be raped - they don't have to be cold stone sober 24/7 or dressed like great aunt Maud on a solemn occasion, etc.
Responsibility for rape culture extends to us all, but in specific cases of rape danger or rape likelihood, if a driver or a bouncer leaves a woman in a position where she is in danger then yes, that driver or bouncer is equally as morally responsible as the rapist is for whatever happens after that.
To suggest that nobody has any responsibility to anyone else, that nobody has any agency, that nobody should engage common sense or act out of concern for the welfare of anyone else, that doggedly sticking to the rules is any justification for abdication of the moral requirement of common decency of one human being towards another is to stray into the territory of 'I was only following orders'. (Sorry, yes, Godwin's law and all that.)