The better article is the primary source this guy cited: http://www.oneinfourusa.org/statistics.phpThe 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 itβs because youβre 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."
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.
Quote from: Madman Mordo on June 07, 2015, 09:14:54 AMI 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.
...by these wackos' viewpoint, would I be part of rape culture?
Quote from: Naoto on June 08, 2015, 12:45:34 AMQuote from: Nuka on June 07, 2015, 11:10:41 PM...by these wackos' viewpoint, would I be part of rape culture?Obviously shitlord. Welcome to the patriarchy.yee son
Quote from: Nuka on June 07, 2015, 11:10:41 PM...by these wackos' viewpoint, would I be part of rape culture?Obviously shitlord. Welcome to the patriarchy.
Good thing I'm Shreks disciple
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.
Quote from: BerzerkCommando on June 08, 2015, 05:32:17 AMWell 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.
Just cut my nuts off.Are we happy now?