You are faux intellectualizing here (posit, converse, Q.E.D...puhlease) and are being wilfully ignorant. You are cherry picking a word and a phrase here and there, fiddling with it, and using your weak reasoning to suggest the columnist--and by implication the countless women coming forth with stories--are somehow in error. Open your ears and read the many testimonials around carefully.  These are women 90% of the time who are just existing when creeps come after them. You blame THEM textbook -style with zero proof while using words like "reality," and you laughably (and sadly) suggest many of these women have likely "knowingly put themselves in danger." They came up with 'rape culture' as a strident phrase in the 70s to wake people like you up. Stop parsing over tea and start caring about people who get molested.