If you're a man, you're part of rape culture

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https://medium.com/human-parts/a-gentlemens-guide-to-rape-culture-7fc86c50dc4c

Prepare yourself.

Some guy posted the following comment, and was subsequently shut down by several women telling him his viewpoint is invalid because he's a man:
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The better article is the primary source this guy cited: http://www.oneinfourusa.org/statistics.php

The secondary picture of the facts given by this guy is riddled with rigid gender categories and further bound up in some uncritical acceptance of gender essentialism. Statements like "How are you part of rape culture? Well, I hate to say it, but it’s because you’re a man" or "women spend most of their social lives with ever-present, unavoidable feelings of vulnerability" are sweeping generalizations that reduce any person of that gender's agency to null. In fact, according to the language used here, rape culture is some primordial, foundational feature of reality that can't be escaped, even if we do (and should) give proper deference and respect to each individual's sexual agency and identity. Yet, it's not the everyday man who walks down the street who perpetuates rape culture - according to the same stats cited by our author, fraternity males are three times more likely to engage in this kind of injurious behavior. Indeed, the ones who commit these acts are usually men who premeditate the act, use alcohol to incite the situation, and are generally of malicious and manipulative disposition. So it should be unsurprising that these specific types of behavioral disposition in men would correlate closely to the profile of a rapist or someone who perpetuates rape culture. Yet, these individuals are in no way representative of the entire male population. To even call it "rape culture" is to accept its socially constructed and malleable nature. The solution is not to blame men in a monolithic swath, nor to victimize all women as by-definition vulnerable in the same breath - the crux of the rape culture issue is completely in the hands of the small minority of chauvinistic and manipulative men who have been brought up (and will bring their children up) in that constructed social reality, all of which further propagates the problem. These types of psychological deficiencies - like racism - are not essential or necessary features of the physiological and sociological features that make a man "a man."

Aside from my problem with camping gender into inescapably rigid binaries that propagate some sort of necessary psychological features to each party, I will say that any and all articles that properly cite harrowing rape statistics are on the right track. Just be wary of statements and arguments that would revoke your agency to defect from these regressive "cultures."

My question about this whole discussion is, how is this conversation happening in modern America? If anyone dared to write a similar article about white people being victimized by racial minorities, like being scared to walk down the street at night and pass some black guy in a hoodie, they'd get called a racist. But here it's perfectly okay to say that all men need to do whatever they can to make other women feel comfortable in their presence.

By the definition presented in the article, we do not have a rape culture. Rape is universally vilified, reporting rates are on the rise, rape laws are as sophisticated as ever, and are still improving. Name one popular television show or movie that normalizes rape rather than making it the most heinous act one person could do to another -- and let me clarify that I'm only referring to women getting raped, since male rape is a running gag in Hollywood.

I really don't take part in these discussions usually, but this article just stood out.
Last Edit: June 07, 2015, 07:17:09 AM by HurtfulTurkey


 
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And as usual these articles rely on egregious assumptions of what life is like for both men and women. What if I'm not retarded enough to think because I'm male I'm going to stand a chance in a scuffle with a mugger or even more so someone with a knife? Anyone who thinks they can handle anyone is just plain retarded and winds up on CCTV footage dead if they go through life thinking it.


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I think we do have a rape culture. A rape hysteria culture. It's pretty much overtaken murder in terms of controversy at this point.


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I think we do have a rape culture. A rape hysteria culture. It's pretty much overtaken murder in terms of controversy at this point.

Oh, rape is definitely worse than murder these days. A decent example is Game of Thrones, because of its recent rape controversy in which a main character was sexually assaulted by another character whose entire plotline until now had been slowly torturing and maiming a guy through castration and other psychological and physical means. Nobody gave a shit about that, or the dozens of brutal murders depicted in the show.


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I think we do have a rape culture. A rape hysteria culture. It's pretty much overtaken murder in terms of controversy at this point.

Oh, rape is definitely worse than murder these days. A decent example is Game of Thrones, because of its recent rape controversy in which a main character was sexually assaulted by another character whose entire plotline until now had been slowly torturing and maiming a guy through castration and other psychological and physical means. Nobody gave a shit about that, or the dozens of brutal murders depicted in the show.
And when it's shown explicitly too. I don't recall the outrage when the Dothraki raped the dark skinned sheep farmers in the first season either.

Perhaps because they were being lead by a woman too?


 
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My stupidity is self evident.
I think we do have a rape culture. A rape hysteria culture. It's pretty much overtaken murder in terms of controversy at this point.
Oh, rape is definitely worse than murder these days. A decent example is Game of Thrones, because of its recent rape controversy in which a main character was sexually assaulted by another character whose entire plotline until now had been slowly torturing and maiming a guy through castration and other psychological and physical means. Nobody gave a shit about that, or the dozens of brutal murders depicted in the show.
>expecting 3rd wave feminists to possess self-awareness

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I really hope I never bump into any of these people in real life. My peasant head cannot even.

Don't have shit like this in the middle of nowhere, or in a bit of a rough environment. Hope to god it never shows up here either. Ridiculous.


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...by these wackos' viewpoint, would I be part of rape culture?
Obviously shitlord. Welcome to the patriarchy.


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...by these wackos' viewpoint, would I be part of rape culture?
Obviously shitlord. Welcome to the patriarchy.
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Well it is true. Have you people seen the way male dogs act? They try to have sex with a female dog whenever they see it or they hump everything. Those things are rape machines.


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As a Leutenant commander of the Partiarchy I can officially confirm rape culture as a joke we made up to tick off crazy lesbians and nothing more.
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Well it is true. Have you people seen the way male dogs act? They try to have sex with a female dog whenever they see it or they hump everything. Those things are rape machines.
Our female Yorkie tries to rape our male Dachshund all the time.


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Well it is true. Have you people seen the way male dogs act? They try to have sex with a female dog whenever they see it or they hump everything. Those things are rape machines.
Our female Yorkie tries to rape our male Dachshund all the time.
What a bitch.


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Well it is true. Have you people seen the way male dogs act? They try to have sex with a female dog whenever they see it or they hump everything. Those things are rape machines.
Our female Yorkie tries to rape our male Dachshund all the time.
Similarly I had a cat who would regularly atempt to rape her own son.


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