Against my better judgement and because MS is not the only one reading this, I shall offer this as an example of how victim blaming endures. It's an article about the slutwalks:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2000598/Slut-walks-crude-betrayal-women.html
The autor starts her piece by making clear that "rape can never be excused." If you read it carefully you will see that she is convinced she believes that "nothing excuses rape or sexual violence of any kind". However, having said this she goes on to criticise the following attitude:
"The women who will be taking part in the Slutwalk think they should be free to dress how they please, without consequences, and without comprehending that freedom also involves responsibilities."
She argues that it is "not empowering to dress like a slut"
"What is empowering is to value yourself and your body ? and to present yourself as someone deserving of respect. "
If we disregard the topic of the article -since there have been threads on the slutwalks and we don't need to go over it all here- what I am trying to show is that the author talks half the feminist talk (no excuse for rape, it is empowering to respect yourself etc,) she can't shake free of the idea that somehow a women's clothing defines how she should be treated ("to present yourself as someone deserving of respect") and that if she doesn't obey this socially imposed norm there may be negative consequences.
Again, to reiterate, she doesn't say that this is the woman's fault, quite the oppposite she goes to enormous effort to say this is what she doesn't mean. But she still uses the classic argument of the victim-blamer: if you didn't dress like "a slut" you wouldn't be at risk of being raped. If she truely believed that rape is never the woman's fault she would not make such an example. If she thought that all women -regardless of their dress or job- deserved respect, she wouldn't argue that a women can only be sure of receiving respect if she dresses a certain way.
I think she thinks she is being pragmatic. She thinks she is pointing out the "realities" of the situation. In fact she is just perpetrating the good old rape myths that most rape victims wore skimpy clothing; that most rapes are done by strangers to strangers; and that some men just can't control themselves around women.
In fact, most rapes are suffered by women who this author would consider to be "showing a little restraint" in their dress; most rapes are carried out by a person already known to the rapist; and men are perfectly capable of controlling themselves around women. A rapist chooses to rape, because he wants to and because he thinks he can get away with it.