Rape Culture

[Lobster]

[Indy]

Which I already covered. I said that perhaps that's a bit strong and not exactly accurate.

Although in a situation where for instance, a teenager is gang-raped by the town football stars who videotape it and share it, and the town rallies behind... the men... that's a tough sell to say that's not ok, a "rape-y" culture? And what kind of culture did those goons grow up in where not only would they do it, but they'd videotape and share it?

HOPEFULLY that's not a national trend.

How about sex-shaming? Because that kind of fits if you think about it: saying women are sluts for having pre-martial sex or using birth control, whereas with men it's a badge of honor. Or intimating that women who were actually raped somehow brought it upon themselves. I said ACTUALLY. Did everybody get that? ACTUALLY.

POINT TAKEN: "rape culture" is a bad term, because it's either two strong, too general or apparently has some out-there feminist definition of which I'm unaware.

OK? Are we happy now?

[exploited]

[Indy]

More than enough of them did than anybody would think, and you know that. Or else it wouldn't have been so disturbing.

Look, you won. Why keep going?

[Lobster]

So what about when a pretty white girl dissapears, and is found raped, and the entire town rallies behind...the woman (ellipses pause for pointless scary emphasis)? What is that evidence of? The reaction to rapists is consistently one of rage and violence. What do you think happens to rapists and pedophiles in prison, exactly? Even the lowest of scum have a hierarchy, and even to them rapists are the lowest of the low. This idea that rapists are protected and adulated by some sort of nebulous net of protection is f**k ridiculous. For every Stebeuville example you bring up I could easily find a Duke Lacrosse to counter it. None of it is evidence of some eery ever present social force, or "culture".

[exploited]

[The Comrade]

internalized misogyny

[John Galt]

[Indy]

[exploited]

Props Indy. Not many people around here will admit when they were mistaken.