verboten a few years ago at the height of the putative campus "rape crisis" (when you also might have thought sound advice would be useful). Activists claimed that such language harked painfully back to a time when women who'd been sexually assaulted were then browbeaten with questions like "What were you wearing?" and "Have you been drinking?"; they succeeded in establishing an ethos which insisted that a victim's behavior is simply not a fit topic for discussion in the aftermath of an assault. The blame — the only blame — must reside with the perpetrator, on the fallacious assumption that fault is a finite, zero-sum resource, and that acknowledging a victim's responsibility for her own safety therefore somehow absolves her attacker of full responsibility for his violence.