A group of women, for years, are attracted to and have sex primarily with men who don't ask consent before touching, strongly sexually initiate, and ignore weak 'no's'.
Would you consider these women partially responsible, even a little, for sexual assaults that happen on others?
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Imagining a light cone of legal responsibility. It seems absurd and also brilliant that it ultimately comes down to what you can do to convince the 12 people who didn’t escape jury duty in a short amount of time.
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It's conditional.
Those women are requiring men to commit what they consider a sexual assault for men to get a relationship with them.
If they say, "This is just how I am" and does not prepetuate it is a general culture then they are not responsible.
However, if they say...
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Surprising consensus. If we're talking about "moral" responsibility, I agree with the general response. But if you're just asking if the presence of this subset of women incentivizes male behavior that lead to some proportion of inadvertent sexual assault, I pick yes (locally).
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Absolutely yes. If they have strongly signalled that they're playing the game of hard to get it's alright to tolerate weak nos being ignored. Otherwise I'd asign them major responsibility.
