So I know friends who are into kinky stuff, yeah? One of whom runs a group in my city.
The friend got informed about a serial consent violator in the community, and poked into it, finding that the rabbit hole went pretty damn deep. 11 or so people who came forward independently of one another during a 2 month personal investigation by this friend.
Throughout all the denial by parties connected to the perpetrator, finally one of the victims had the guts to risk public outing, and went to the cops. The police response? "Ma'am, you let someone tie you up at a public kink event and then you're SURPRISED he violated you in several ways and didn't stop when you said stop? What, are you stupid? Of course it's your damn fault, don't be stupid next time!".
This is bearing in mind that the perp happens to be someone who was well respected in the in-group, was the owner of the place in question, and there's supposed to be a general understanding in their community that "If the sub says the safeword, you STOP. Continuing to do anything after they say the word is rape".
And then people connected to the perp went "Well, the cops didn't do anything so CLEARLY it's the victim's fault!", ignoring that she was a newbie who got taken advantage of by someone who knew better.
After hearing (and seeing screenshots) from the friend involved in trying to resolve this mess, the mess of logical pretzels people were twisting themselves into to try to defend the guy (Who again, has status in their community) and blame the victims (Most of whom did not know better), I am just done with trying to put blame onto people who AREN'T actively doing the bad thing.
Because it's not hard to not do the bad thing. You just have to NOT do it.