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      8 months ago

      People use arguments to justify everything. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong. This is a stupid point.

      and rape culture isn’t really a thing, it’s not a culture… it’s a problem but that’s the wrong word.

      If you can’t be bothered to so much as type “what is rape culture” into google, I’m done talking to you

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          8 months ago

          in most cultures, rape is seen as pretty bad.

          Yes, literally everyone agrees that rape is bad. The problem is that in our culture, we have a bad habit of rationalizing what we do as not really rape. How many times have you heard someone ask what a woman was wearing, or why she was walking home at night instead of driving, or why she was alone at a bar, or why she didn’t fight back, or why she didn’t report sexual violence as soon as it happened? Why does nearly every woman have at least one experience with sexual violence? Why did we elect a guy who openly admitted to sexual assault as president? It’s almost like we have a culture around enabling and forgiving rape, in large part by rationalizing it as “not really” rape. I wonder if there’s a word for a culture that enables sexual violence.

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              8 months ago

              the way he said it was framed as joking… and a lot of people accepted it as just a joke (it turned out he was actually bragging…)

              YOU HAVE JUST DESCRIBED RAPE CULTURE.