Someone got beaten almost to death in LA for wearing a Giants jersey to a Dodgers game. A columnist wrote a piece saying it was kind of that guy’s fault, since he was wearing A) the wrong jersey, and B) wearing a jersey at all—come on, grow up.

Rob Neyer links to the offensive article, saying “Isn’t blaming a sports fan who’s almost beaten to death for wearing enemy colors a little too much like blaming a rape victim for wearing a mini-skirt?” Which makes sense.

But that got me to thinking, isn’t it the case that people are always blaming rape victims for dressing too provocatively? Isn’t that the explicit premise of most mainstream coverage of rape victims -or- the subtext of those stories? And aren’t professional athletes notoriously, well, rape-y?

I find Neyer’s appropriation of one disgusting journalistic habit to condemn another one, well, a little disgusting. That’s all.