If you agree with Hook that it is women’s personal responsibility to be on constant guard against rapists yet refuse to concede that we live in a culture in which rape is a constant threat, you must be experiencing some intense cognitive dissonance. If you share the opinion that women who do not take what you consider to be sufficient precautions against rape are partly to blame for being attacked yet do not agree that we live in a society that blames victims for their attackers’ crimes, your mental gymnastics must be Olympian.
This^ from the Guardian article is hard to argue with. But plenty of people will try. Like the commenters under the Irish Times article (suggest not reading those, as they fulfill the law that any mainstream article that mentions a feminist notion proves the need for feminism in the comments).
No idea who this Hook fella is, but he does seem awful keen to defend rapists, which never makes me think well of a person...