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That word 'responsibility' can be used ambiguously. It was not in this case.
The assertion that Yvain has 'totally misread' something based on this creative spin makes a mockery of the concept of 'charity'.
Well, all we have is Yvain's paraphrase of what she said. And considering how much he piled on, and how he compared her to a much stupider suggestion, I think more caution was appropriate.
I don't see what's so creative about my "spin"; I frequently hear people use the term "take responsibility" as a euphemism for "take punishment". E.g., "They should take responsibility for what they've done" = "they should receive the appropriate punishment", not "they should privately admit to themselves that they could do better".