Plat­ner told rape vic­tims to ‘take some respon­si­bil­i­ty’ and avoid being assault­ed in vul­gar resur­faced post

Gra­ham Plat­ner, Maine’s embat­tled Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­ate nom­i­nee who stands accused of rape, made a Red­dit post in 2013 where he crit­i­cized vic­tims of rape.“Holy f—, how about peo­ple just take some respon­si­bil­i­ty for them­selves and not get so f—ed up they wind up hav­ing sex with some­one they don’t mean to?” Plat­ner wrote in 2013, respond­ing to anoth­er user who expressed dis­ap­point­ment that women couldn’t get intox­i­cat­ed with­out fear­ing sex­u­al assault.“Men and women, you make a choice to con­sume enough of a sub­stance to lose your self con­trol. So if you don’t want to be in a com­pris­ing [sic.] sit­u­a­tion, act like an adult for f—s sake,” Plat­ner …