I don't think it works like that exactly. This survivor did not appear to have any plan in the event of a home invasion. It's hard to blame her though - our society teaches women that victims are attractive and desirable. For instance high heels (can't run, hard to balance) and supermodels (tiny, tiny women without the musculature to threaten anyone). Powerful women are seen as emasculating or homosexual. If you'd been trained from infancy to be a beautiful victim, you might not have a plan either.txinvestigator wrote: This is because most women believe if the cooperated, are reasonable and do not antagonize the attacker that the attacker will respond and not hurt them.
Sexual Assault is a crime of violence, not sex.
When you don't have a plan, you have to wing it. And women are trained to solve problems by being compliant and using empathy. Thus, we attempt to solve the problem of assault in the same way. The fact that LEOs of various stripes advise compliance to prevent further harm to ourselves doesn't help any, of course. This suggests that there is no better option than to "hide under the blankets" and hope the nasty rapist goes away.
I think she is to be commended for realizing that she had a non-optimal solution to this problem when it happened and seeking a better one. I wish that we, as a society, could do as good a job of learning from our mistakes.