Women say some rape victims should take blame - survey

[iverglas]

24. I think you are assuming

that women who are sexually assaulted are victimized in their home neighbourhood.

I imagine that many women who live in Brookline have lived elsewhere, worked elsewhere, gone to school elsewhere ...

Yes, a majority of women who are sexually assaulted knew their attacker.

The reason for the high income in Brookline is to a large extent the high level of education of the residents. I doubt that many of the high earners went to Newbury College in Brookline.

I don't disagree that multiply disadvantaged women (disadvantaged by class, race, disability status, etc.) are at higher risk of sexual assault.

But the figures you posted really don't mean that a woman currently living in Brookline has a lifetime risk of sexual assault that is 10 times higher than a woman living in Chelsea.