Right - well put!
Mind you, I don't think he was trying to offend you per se - the offense is to rape victims, for trivializing their pain. Now, if he had simply accused you of simply having a "blame the victim mentality," and left it at that, then that would have been perfectly acceptable, civility-wise. If he really wanted a proper analogy, though, I might have used something like "blaming Enron employees who have just lost their pensions for having taken that job in the first place," or maybe "blaming me for the virus that just infected my computer because I happen to use Windows 98 with no service packs, or for that matter, an anti-virus program."
Of course, the reality is more like "blaming someone for not sympathizing with the accuser after his accusations have been proven false and his questionable motives exposed." But that's a whole 'nother topic...
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