What is the difference between many of the comments on this thread and victim blaming?
I don't know. I do't like it when the term victim blaming is used too broadly.
If you say someone was responsible for her assault because she wore sexy club clothes, that's victim blaming. People are responsible for what they do, though that can be mitigated in various ways.
If you say, women wearing sexy club clothes are being influenced by a set of stereotypes or an industry that sexualises women for its own gain, and that when we buy into it we are part of a culture of sexualisation within which sexual assaults happen, it's not victim blaming, it's making a proposition about how influence and power moves in society.
There is a point where those two things come together in an individual though. Maybe the teen who buys into that really doesn't get it, is simply being influenced by the culture at large, is a victim of its view of women. But is that true of, say, Madonna? Is she a victim, or has she chosen to support that because she benefits from it?
Well, who knows, I don't know Madonna, and maybe not everyone likes my particular example. But women are generally speaking also people who have some level of responsibility for their actions, they do have some real agency.
I think a lot of these women are likely horribly naive, and probably some of the men as well. But it is also the kind of thing where adults are capable of employing agency, there really is not huge social pressure to go to naked yoga.