Dr. George Lakoff has an entire appendix in his book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind where he shows how metaphors associated with lust, anger, and a third term(I forget it at the moment cause I have a serious head cold) create a logical pathway for the blame the victim mentality. It's really a spooky read because you find yourself nodding along and horrified at the end because common ways we talk about somewhat related terms can be used to excuse such horrific actions. The book itself's tough to read if you don't have a background in language use (be it sociolinguistics or communication), but the appendix on its own isn't as opaque as it's an example of what he's talking about throughout the larger book. Basically, the notion that the way we talk about things influences our perception of them. So the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis expanded to point to the fact that the way we categorize items also influences the way we think about them.

Add in the Just World phenomenon and it gets even worse.