Truth claims versus moral claims

I ran across the following statement in an article yesterday:

... only 52 per cent disagreed with the statement that “If a woman wears provocative clothing, she’s putting herself at risk for rape.”

The whole statment seems to be category confusion - confusing whether or not a statement is true with whether or not an action is moral. To say that a statement is true does not mean that the action the statement describes is more.

At the moment I've not yet heard a single argument as to why the statement would be false, but there seem to be reasons as why to it seems pretty likely to be true (although I have difficulty thinking of any way that a study trying to directly verify this would ever make it past an ethics review board. Examine the published, peer-reviewed literature and what do you find on the effects of clothing? One example:

Clothing is often an important external cue used by others in impression formation and to project an image of self.

That particular example comes in reference to business attire, but you'll find a similar response when studies focus on women in sweaters versus swimsuits (which is probably the closest scholarly research on the impact of clothing):

In the first experimental test of self-objectification, we manipulated the state by asking participants to wear swimsuits or sweaters. When wearing a swimsuit most people are likely to assume a third-person perspective and to view their bodies as objects. As predicted, we found that women wearing swimsuits described themselves more in terms of their bodies, experienced greater body shame and self-related emotions, were more likely to exhibit restrained eating, and performed worse on a math test than women wearing sweaters.

Where's the counterargument that clothing has no impact on victimization? I'm not sure how large an effect to effect, but based on the above I'd be surprised if there wasn't some statistically significant impact of clothing in this regard.

(This also doesn't address the utter hypocrisy when it comes to things like "victim blaming". Why do men make up about 80% of homicide victims? Per one USA Today columnist, it's "behavior, not biology". No victim blaming there whatsoever of course... I also can't say that I've seen too many demands from feminist groups for gender quotas for hazardous jobs, currently performed primarily by men).