The myth of rape culture


This is one of the dogmas of the religion of feminism. Ironically while there is no rape culture for women, there is one for men.

1. When a man gets raped by a woman, people tell him: "Dude, you should be grateful, what are you bitching about? you got laid." This normalizes rape and the victim is ridiculed if he tries to press charges. If the authorities do take him seriously and open a case, there will probably be no prison sentence for the perpetrator, at most probation time.

2. When a man is raped in prison, no one cares. There is no investigation, no charges, nothing. This is totally accepted. People even joke about this.

Since we're talking about prison, it is ludicrous to propose there is a rape culture in the West considering what happens to rapists in prison. It's right up there with child molester.

Despite absolutely no evidence of a rape culture on campuses or anywhere else, laws have been passed to remove due process. This makes us rational people lose faith in humanity.

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While you are completely right in acknowledging how rape culture affects men, I fail to see how this is a refutation of the notion that it also applies to women, or exists altogether.

You are describing the very problems every decent human being who attempts to fight rape culture (feminists included!) is trying to solve. These right here are just the other side of the same coin in my view. I can easily imagine the kind of people who would tell a woman who suffered sexual assault "What are you bitching about? He is just claiming his/your marital duties" tell a man the thing you cited in 1.

Please don't forget that an overwhelming percentage of feminists, of course, care about sexual assault victims of any gender.
The fact that this movie - which I hope you have seen - gives male rape victims a voice as well is a great example and proof of this.

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I fail to see how this is a refutation of the notion that it also applies to women, or exists altogether.


Rapists are not heroes. They are not admired, secretly or openly. The are considered scum both by men and women. Rapists are raped and beaten in prison. Every man, even a rapist, knows that rape is wrong. If you make a (male-on-female) rape joke in public you can get in serious trouble (just look at Joss Whedon and his "prima nocte" joke) whereas if you make, say, a prison rape joke, everybody laughs. There is a rape culture in some parts of Iraq, Afghanistan and other places but not in the first world. Watch this clip to see how female-on-male statutory rape is seen as no big deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsLNepmzN0Y

Look at the case of Molly Shattuck who got her sentence suspended while people are crucifying the Subway guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shattuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle

48 weekends in prison and registering as a sex offender for 20 years vs. 12.5 years in prison and registering as a sex offender for life.

These right here are just the other side of the same coin in my view. I can easily imagine the kind of people who would tell a woman who suffered sexual assault "What are you bitching about? He is just claiming his/your marital duties" tell a man the thing you cited in 1.


I have never seen anyone do that. No one would tell a female sexual assault victim that. Maybe they would have in the fifties but not today. Please give me a link of any show or film or anything saying that, like I did.

Please don't forget that an overwhelming percentage of feminists, of course, care about sexual assault victims of any gender.


This is not my experience. Feminists care only about women's advancement and label any kind of concern for male problems "misogyny".

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/27/trump-lawyer-you-can-t-rape-your-spouse.html?via=mobile&source=copyurl

I'm not saying Ivanka was in the right, as she later modified her claim. But you asked for a link of someone saying "what are you bitching about he's just claiming his marital duties?" Which was what you quoted and replied to, and here is one. In fact it was law until the eighties that you couldn't even be charged with raping your spouse in ny.

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Women get raped far more than men. FACT. When men get raped it is usually by other men FACT. There is a problem in society with men raping and sexually abusing others. And yes, there is a definite rape culture where men feel like they are entitled to do what they want to others and don't care what their actions do to them.

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Yelling "FACT" after a statement doesn't make it true. The oppressive patriarchy demands evidence.

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Yes but when "the patriarchy" otherwise known as misogynist MRA/red pills gets the stats they turn them around into making women responsible lying slut whores. Most people capable of cognitive thought and logical reasoning accept that the truth is that men commit the violence in society. That men overwhelmingly are the perpetrators in rapes and sexual assaults and that very, very few women or people ever lie about it.

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Again you fail at the basic task of presenting evidence. Saying "Most people capable of cognitive thought and logical reasoning accept that the truth..." is not going to shame me into accepting what you say. If things are as horrible as you say, I don't see why it's impossible to produce any evidence at all.

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There's plenty of evidence easily findable by a very quick Google search. It's not my job to educate people. If you truly are interested then you would have a look. But I highly suspect if I posted anything from government stats to wiki you would argue against any of it.

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I have had a look. I've done extensive research. It's confirmed. Rape culture is a myth. I think it's you who hasn't done any research.

http://www.aauw.org/article/clery-act-data-analysis/
http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/26/is-challenging-rape-culture-claims-an-id
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/no-1-in-5-women-have-not-been-raped-on-college-campuses/article/2551980
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/14/campus-rape-uva-crisis-rolling-stone-politics-column/20397277/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feminist-organization-still-defending-rolling-stone-rape-hoaxer/article/2580101#.VpPxMAPyQCk.facebook

Women never lie about rape:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204712/Woman-falsely-claimed-raped-men-regretted-having-sex-jailed-years.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11905639/Teenager-falsely-accused-of-rape-commits-suicide.html

Men are never raped:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/21/ukcrime.gender
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html

Feminism is about criminalizing masculinity:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2930819/CPS-launches-crackdown-rapist-pray-drunk-women-Tightened-laws-stop-suspects-using-social-media-help-cover-tracks.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11375667/Men-must-prove-a-woman-said-Yes-under-tough-new-rape-rules.html

When feminists experience a real rape culture, they defend it:

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.2229/raped-woman-didn-t-want-to-call-the-police-i-feel-sorry-for-him-because-he-is-a-refugee.html
http://www.vice.com/read/rape-culture-germany-cologne-new-years-2016-876
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rape-culture-germany-cologne-new-years-2016-876

You should ask yourself why is it that you hate men?

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I don't hate men.
I also never said women never lie, nor that men are never raped. I think that shows what kind of a rant you are on.

There is nothing there that disputes the facts that men commit the majority of violent cries, nor that most people who report rape are telling the truth.

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I don't have to disprove your unsupported claims just like I don't have to disprove the existence of the Spaghetti Monster. The burden of proof is on you. So far you have presented ZERO evidence. Stop wasting everyone's time. It's fine if feminism is your religion, just don't foist it upon everyone else.

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Yes. Men are the majority of people committing violent crimes. BUT it's innocent men who take the worst of those crimes. More men are murdered every year than women are raped. Are you going to sit there and lump all of those innocent victims of murder together with the murderers and rapists? HOW FCKING DARE YOU!

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So because more men are murdered (according to you) then women should what?! Just accept being raped and abused and murdered too? What an appalling logic fail. Also, I would point out that I never raised the topic of murdered men or insinuate anything about them so your assertion that I did is strange indeed.

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Are you over on The Purge boards complaining about how those movies seem to highlight and even promote murdering people, specifically men??

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No. I liked The Purge and think it was an interesting movie about where people's moralities lie.

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More men are murdered every year than women are raped.


Ummm, not really. Perhaps if you're talking worldwide and including wars? But even then, I would seriously doubt that assertion.

Also, simply stating something does not an argument make. It's incumbent upon you to show how it is relevant to the subject, which is something you didn't even try to do.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/1tabledatadecoverviewpdf/table_1_crime_in_the_united_states_by_volume_and_rate_per_100000_inhabitants_1994-2013.xls

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Most people capable of cognitive thought and logical reasoning accept that the truth is that men commit the violence in society. That men overwhelmingly are the perpetrators in rapes and sexual assaults and that very, very few women or people ever lie about it.

Yes, we get it. Man bad, women good, straight out of the feminist bible. Its no wonder that most people capable of cognitive thought and logical reasoning have come to reject this pernicious little ideology. And then when you go and try to qualify your statement, you can't even bring yourself to use the word "men" you say "women or people". Feminists have a innate hatred of men that leaks out in everything they write, every single time.
Yes but when "the patriarchy" otherwise known as misogynist MRA/red pills gets the stats they turn them around into making women responsible lying slut whores.

If your stats are so easily debunked perhaps you should reevaluate your position. And for the record, the MRA red pill types aren't interested in making women look bad, they're interested in making feminists look bad. Like I said above, you're own your own deep-seated prejudice will always leak out.

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Actually the reason I used the word people was to encompass children as well as men. So nice try at trying to paint it as more than it is.

I find it interesting that you want to argue with facts that are set in stone,solid and provable. i.e. crime stats. Convictions etc. Nowhere in my country does the stats disagree with my statement that men are the ones perpetrating rapes and violent crimes in the majority. And that women and people i.e. men and kids, very rarely lie about or make false reports. Crime stats verify this and support it. It is a well known and worn truism and if you want to argue otherwise, go for it. But you are just dead wrong.

And saying MRAs and Red Pill don't want to make women look bad but want to make feminists look bad is laughable considering a majority of feminists are women. lol. it's a stance to pretend you don't have prejudice when you do.

I'm not interested in making anyone look bad but I won't allow people to spread misinformation that men aren't raping or committing violent acts against others, mainly females, in our society. They are. And uncomfortable truth, but there it is nonetheless.

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I find it interesting that you want to argue with facts that are set in stone,solid and provable. i.e. crime stats. Convictions etc.

Then post something to back up your claims. Perhaps you should start by backing up the notion that false accusations are as rare as you're trying to make them out to be, or posting the FBI's DNA test results on accused rapists. The oppressive patriarchy demands evidence.
And saying MRAs and Red Pill don't want to make women look bad but want to make feminists look bad is laughable considering a majority of feminists are women. lol. it's a stance to pretend you don't have prejudice when you do.

It is typical of feminists to attempt to genderize an issue when it is not in fact about gender. I don't care if you are woman or a man, I only care about discrediting your hateful ideology. I am also utterly unmoved by any accusation of misogyny. You can point and cry misogynist all day, nobody cares, that accusation no longer holds any power.
I won't allow people to spread misinformation that men aren't raping or committing violent acts against others

You won't allow, huh? Yeah, its also typical of feminists to think they are better than everybody else, like some sort of aristocracy. You're the one spreading misinformation by defending the absurd and hateful notion we live in a "rape culture". Unquestionably some men are violent. Some women are as well. Nobody here has said anything to the contrary, however these violent men and woman are not representative of the majority and are certainly not encouraged or even tolerated in any meaningful way.
Actually the reason I used the word people was to encompass children as well as men.

Yeah, not buying it, if that were the case you would have said so originally. In the feminist worldview there is women and then there is everybody else and will trip over themselves to make every single issue about women. As I said, it seeps out of their writing.

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The fact that men in power positions or famous people who have raped women or children are protected by others prove there is a rape culture. Do you actually know what a rape culture is?! Because denying the existence of the problem is part of it.

Also it is ridiculous to state this is not an issue about gender when this documentary was about the gender issue of rape in college. There are other aspects to sexual abuse and rape that are important but that was not what was covered by the film.

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The fact that men in power positions or famous people who have raped women or children are protected by others prove there is a rape culture. Do you actually know what a rape culture is?! Because denying the existence of the problem is part of it.

The fact that feminists in power positions or women who have falsely accused men or children are protected by others prove there is a false accusation culture. Do you actually know what a false accusation culture is?! Because denying the existence of the problem is part of it.

Do you see how ridiculous you sound? Just because a problem exists does not mean we live in a culture supports or condones it. Expressing doubt in the absence of evidence when someone is accused of a crime is perfectly reasonable. The problem feminists have, once again, is that on the one hand they conflate accusations with guilt and on the other are attempting to expand the definition of what can be regarded as rape in the first place.
Also it is ridiculous to state this is not an issue about gender when this documentary was about the gender issue of rape in college.

First off, this is no documentary, this is a propaganda piece. Second, the number of men raped is not insignificant compared to women. Despite the dishonest efforts of feminists to minimize the suffering of male victims, rape is not a gendered issue.

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No one who is raped or abused is insignificant. I have not once said they are. Even the documentary included some male victims and their outcomes too. Every victim of rape/ sexual assault / sexual abuse is important.

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Maybe if you feminists cared more about giving men more purpose and a general feeling of pride in being descent human beings rather than condemning them for everything they do or say (including being "gentlemen"), you might see a change in their behavior. BUT as it is, most of these male criminals are raised by single moms who consistently b!tch and moan about men in general. How the hell can that be a healthy environment for a boy to grow up in??

Men are your sons, brothers, fathers, uncles, etc. Their lives and freedom matter too.

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Really?! Maybe then I would hold the men to account who have deserted their child and the mother of their child to a difficult life.

Why is it a woman's responsibility to do anything to ensure men behave appropriately? Are you seriously suggesting that men are incapable of knowing not to rape and abuse women because women are too hard on them? Really? I think there are plenty of decent men out there who would disagree with you.

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I'm not interested in making anyone look bad but I won't allow people to spread misinformation that men aren't raping or committing violent acts against others, mainly females, in our society. They are. And uncomfortable truth, but there it is nonetheless.

Sources? Here's one that disagrees with your claim: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe f_uck yourself.

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Yes sorry, it depends on what statistics you are looking at. I was discussing rape, violent sexual abuse and domestic violence/domestic related homicide. Where women are the main victims. Men killing each other is not surprising, nor relevant to a documentary about male violence on females.

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I was discussing rape

We've already been through this, the numbers of male rape victims are comparable to female victims.
violent sexual abuse

One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old. When is comes to the most serious forms of abuse boys represent the majority of victims. Sounds pretty comparable to me. https://1in6.org/the-1-in-6-statistic/
and domestic violence/domestic related homicide.

Not the topic at hand but again the numbers are comparable. http://web.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
Men killing each other is not surprising, nor relevant to a documentary about male violence on females.

In other words mention of male rape victims in this propaganda piece would be counterproductive to pushing the feminist narrative. Gotcha.

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They're actually not at all, according to the FBI and CDC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime#Statistics

The FBI data only refers to arrest rates. Its not an accurate measure of domestic violence or any other crime for that matter. I mean, you wouldn't want to measure the rate of sexual assault, a notoriously under-reported crime according to feminists, by the number of arrests now would you?

The CDC? Their statistics are all over the place if you bother to look. Some show women as violent or more violent than men. For example: "Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases."http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2005.079020
It wasn't the subject of the documentary

This is no documentary, its propaganda. You miss the point entirely, this film isn't about the truth, its about the narrative. Its about pushing a feminist hate agenda and demonizing men and male sexuality.



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"male sexuality" = rape.

That's what the feminists are saying, yeah. And you prove your bias with the scare quotes.
Yes you would, and then you'd have estimates for how underreported those crimes are

There are a multitude of reasons why arrest rates are not a good measure of victimization. False accusations, police bias, inconsistent local police department practices and a million others. Even the UCR documentation indicates it is as much a measure of police behavior than 'crime.' There is absolutely no reason to take it at face value.
It's about spreading awareness to a problem I choose to ignore.

A problem on the decline. Rates of violent sexual assault have been on the decline for decades. That's why feminists need to produce propaganda pieces like this film, to maintain the illusion that their hate message is somehow relevant.

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You're actually the one saying it, since you equate attacking rape to attacking "male sexuality." You're the one who used that term, not me.

Then I'm sure you will condemn this: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6966847/yes-means-yes-is-a-terrible-bill-and-i-completely-support-it
That's the agenda. That "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter" and colleges deliberately create an "equilibrium where too much counts as sexual assault" so that when you are tried by these college grievance committee "then you've already lost".
I guess I missed the part in the documentary where Kirby said "rape is at an all-time high and steadily increasing."

There are so many lies in this propaganda piece its hard to keep track.
Where exactly is the problem? That rape is decreasing doesn't imply that it's not still prevalent.

The fact that it has been on the decline means there is little justification for the hysteria feminists are stirring up. By blaming so-called rape culture, we implicate all men in a social atrocity, trivialize the experiences of survivors, and deflect blame from the rapists truly responsible for sexual violence.
I'd say we still have a serious problem in the status quo worth dealing with, not shrug off as something that will eventually fix itself.

The problem of campus rape specifically will be gone when online education becomes normalized and takes over. Without an actual physical campus these kangaroo courts will be a thing of the past, along with those shrieking feminists that inhabit them.

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That's what the feminists are saying, yeah.


I'm a feminist and I have not once said that.

You're denial about how prevalent women are being abused, raped and murdered by men is troubling because you want to not acknowledge women. Why? Let's say you are right (you're not BTW) and that women are making up smaller number than men in rape and abuse stats, are you really saying that women should just deal with it and not complain because it isn't as bad as they have been told? isn't it a problem that men are raping women whether it happens in the high numbers it has been happening, or whether it is a small number. Are you advocating that women victims should not have a voice because they don't matter as much as men because according to you men have it worse off?

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I'm a feminist and I have not once said that.

Lots feminists that are far more influential than you are doing exactly that. See my reply to Rodger above.
You're denial about how prevalent women are being abused, raped and murdered by men is troubling because you want to not acknowledge WOMEN.

Why? Let's say you are right (you're not BTW) and that WOMEN are making up smaller number than men in rape and abuse stats, are you really saying that WOMEN should just deal with it and not complain because it isn't as bad as they have been told?

Your bias is showing! Don't you mean to say rape victims rather than women? Of course not, feminism is all about painting women as the victims of the big bad imaginary rape culture. They spend so much time reading false statistics and propaganda they work themselves into a state of hysterical paranoia.
isn't it a problem that men are raping women whether it happens in the high numbers it has been happening, or whether it is a small number

Facts matter. If feminists are lie (and they do, all the time, about pretty much everything) about the actual prevalence of rape then the question that needs to be asked is why. The answer of course is that they benefit from stirring up a hysteria.
Are you advocating that women victims should not have a voice because they don't matter as much as men because according to you men have it worse off?

Victims of either sex deserve justice. Those who deliberately make false reports deserve jail time. Feminists who spread debunked statistics, make excuses for false accusers, promote hatred of men and the infantilization of women deserve to be ridiculed, ignored and marginalized.

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kalbininkas-534-929982 wrote:

Yelling "FACT" after a statement doesn't make it true. The oppressive patriarchy demands evidence.


More women get raped than men:

In 2003, 19670 men were the victims of rape/sexual assault, compared to 179170 women, making women just slightly more than 90% of the victims. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv03.pdf

You know, sometimes things are just so commonly known that asking for proof is considered silly at best, like asking for proof that the moon is not made of cheese.

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You know, sometimes things are just so commonly known that asking for proof is considered silly at best, like asking for proof that the moon is not made of cheese.


Just by reading this I know you're a feminist. Silencing techniques are your thing.

Sexual assault does not equal rape. This report does not include prison rape.

Most female on male rape goes unreported because of the female on male rape culture.

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Rape deniers just make crap up as they go along, don't they? LOL.

Now tell me the Holocaust didn't happen, you're at the same level as those folks.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy


Wow, you don't even know how to use that right! It's amazing that you pretend to intellect when it's so very obvious to any thinking person that you don't use any.

For anyone reading this, the problem with kalbininkas-534-929982's non-argument is that a conclusion must be drawn for it to be a fallacy. The very link he left makes that clear. For example, and straight from his link: "John is a con artist. John has black hair. Therefore, all people with black hair are con artists."

I made NO SUCH CLAIM, lol! Indeed, I just used it as an insult. I thought that was clear. Apparently, these dolts can't even recognize when they've been insulted! HA! So dim and useless they are.

And pathetic, too, leaving an irrelevant link in lieu of an actual argument, because, of course, they are incapable of making an actual argument. Come at them with facts, they say they don't believe the facts. Come at them with theory, they claim you said something else (which happened right here in this thread with another woman-hater). They hope that, eventually, we'll just get tired of arguing and then they think they've "won" something. Childish boys, the lot of them, always being "victimized" by reality.

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I just used it as an insult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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LOL!!!! You're more fun than the others. Reply again, it's funny watching you try to be clever. :-)

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Want to see real rape culture? Move to the Middle East and spare us your BS.

If I can't smoke and swear I'm *beep*

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You are not making your point. Yes, there is a problem of sexual assault against men, but this movie is about sexual assault of women. What you're doing is like going to a black lives matter protest and you start shouting about how Hispanics are treated. It just doesn't belong here because the point you're making have nothing with this movie. Everyone knows rape happens in prison, both to males and females. Everyone knows that males can and do get raped. I mean Spotlight just won best picture. But the fact is you are much more likely to get raped if you are a woman. That is a statistical fact and can't be refuted. It's also a fact that universities cover up rape because it's better for their bottom line. Where I went to college rape was so endemic there was a place on campus known as "the rape garden" because so many rapes happened there.

I don't care about the terminology. If you want to say there is no "culture" I couldn't give a *beep*. But if you want to say that obvious facts are myths, that's were I have a problem. College is a place where there is a large amounts of drinking and drugs and under the influence people get impaired, both men and women, and do stupid things. Do I think most of these college guys who are rapists are a classic sexual predator? Probably not. But there sure are some who take advantage of the college lifestyle to get laid and the fact is that if you rape someone, even if you were drunk at the time, you deserve to get punished and yet routinely people blame the victim.

I don't care what the law are, rapes is extremely hard to prosecute, even with physical evidence because it all comes down to he said, she said, and the victims have to deal with people like you who blame the victim by automatically assuming she's lying. So all those laws mean jack most of the time and any kind of justice becomes nothing but a second trauma. So go peddle your "fact" in a more appropriate place.

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Basically yeah.

Feminists are actually pushing for them to scrap any statutes of limitation for rape. That means they want their sons' lives RUINED by some angry woman who simply points a finger at him and says, "He raped me."

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But the fact is you are much more likely to get raped if you are a woman. That is a statistical fact and can't be refuted.

I beg to differ: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html

http://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/coerced-sex.aspx

What you're doing is like going to a black lives matter protest and you start shouting about how Hispanics are treated.

Pot meet kettle. The whole point of black lives matter is to go where they are not wanted to raise awareness of their issues.
It's also a fact that universities cover up rape because it's better for their bottom line.

A good argument as to why accusations of rape should be handled by law enforcement. Leaving it to colleges presents a conflict of interest.
I don't care what the law are

And therein lies the crux of the problem. You and the other gender ideologues don't care one bit about the presumption of innocence, you just want you witch hunt and to hell with any innocent men who's lives are ruined in the process.

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I beg to differ: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-raped-US-women-including-prison-sexual-abuse.html



Umm, I don't know if you realize what you did here or not, but the first link you left in your post is all about how men are raped as much is women are if you add in men in prison.

Do you see the problem here?

Essentially, you're proving a deeply feminist point: "Because the prisons for women are our homes. We live under martial law. We live in places in which a rape culture exists. That is a woman's home, where she lives. Men have to be sent to prison to live in a culture that is as rapist as the normal home in North America." (Emphasis added.)

That's just what your link proved.

Know who said what I quoted?

ANDREA DWORKIN.

That tickles me more than you can possibly know.

Anyway, thanks for adding to the evidence that Dworkin was right about an awful lot of things. Btw, that quote is from a speech she gave in 1991. Not much has changed, huh?

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Umm, I don't know if you realize what you did here or not, but the first link you left in your post is all about how men are raped as much is women are if you add in men in prison.

Do you see the problem here?

Yes I do, quite clearly. Rape is loathsome crime no matter who the victims are. The fact that our culture often trivializes prison rape makes the situation all the more tragic. If you wish to make the argument that prison inmates, mostly minorities, mostly imprisoned for committing non violent crimes deserve to be excluded from statistical measurements of rape by all means do so. Otherwise my point stands.
Essentially, you're proving a deeply feminist point: "Because the prisons for women are our homes. We live under martial law. We live in places in which a rape culture exists. That is a woman's home, where she lives. Men have to be sent to prison to live in a culture that is as rapist as the normal home in North America."

See here's the thing, some of us actually like being around members of the opposite sex. Working with them, socializing with them and even, dare I say, loving them! I know, crazy notion, right? If you don't like it by all means don't participate. Go live in a hut in the mountains or something. You won't be missed.
ANDREA DWORKIN.

Not even I, the anti-feminist that I am would hold Dworkin's raving lunacy as representative of feminist ideology. The woman was clearly insane. If you wish help to marginalize and discredit feminism even further, by all means continue to bring up Dworkin's odious rhetoric.

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This isn't aimed at any particular user...

.. All I see is mudslinging from both sides. This Men Vs Women/Women Vs Men bollocks needs to stop! Rape is rape. It doesn't matter what gender a victim is or what gender a perp is, rape is rape. We are never going to combat it if we keep up this segregation, this animosity against one another.

Those that commit rape, should be punished. Those who make false allegations, should be punished. We need to learn to stop throwing the misogyny and misandry cards. We also need to identify rape as it is: The act of forcing a person into sex, whether by force or intimidation (including threats of violence and blackmail). This does not count two drunk people at a club or a party and it does not count 'regret sex'.

Let's not lose sight of the one thing both men and women share: A goal, an enemy....



RIP Rik Mayall, you utter bastard! Your fans deeply miss you.

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Are you really that dumb or do you just work really hard to miss the point, which I made very, very obvious?

For men to experience the rape culture that women experience everyday, they have to be in prison.

No one said that's a good thing, by the way, yet you pretend someone did.

No one said men and women shouldn't live in the same space, but you pretend someone did.

I suppose it's easier to battle straw men than it is Dworkin, who was a brilliant theorist and a heck of a writer. She's also the most lied about woman in the last few hundred years. Lied about by people just like you.

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For men to experience the rape culture that women experience everyday, they have to be in prison.

I am not arguing with you, I'm offering a very simple solution to your stated problem. If socializing with men is so terrible for you don't do it. Simple. You may kindly leave the rest of us happy normal men and women to conduct our lives as we see fit. What you may not do is to go around preaching hatred.
No one said men and women shouldn't live in the same space, but you pretend someone did.

I'm not referring to people generally, I'm referring to you personally, although any other women that feel that way are welcome to do the same.
I suppose it's easier to battle straw men than it is Dworkin, who was a brilliant theorist and a heck of a writer. She's also the most lied about woman in the last few hundred years.

She was very intelligent, no question of that. She was also mentally ill and a peddler of hatred of both sexes. Similar to de Beauvoir, her hatred of women was almost as great as her hatred of men.

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I am not arguing with you, I'm offering a very simple solution to your stated problem. If socializing with men is so terrible for you don't do it. Simple. You may kindly leave the rest of us happy normal men and women to conduct our lives as we see fit. What you may not do is to go around preaching hatred.


The really sad think here is that I think you're serious.

You're solution to crime isn't to stop the crime but to run away from it? Seriously?

The problem is that women live in a rape culture, something you don't argue with now that I've explained to you what your link actually means, which is something you foolishly didn't understand before I told you and, of course, makes the title of this thread an obvious lie. So good for you, you've learned something! There really is a rape culture!

Now, the next step for you to take on your journey to becoming a human being is to understand that it is WRONG to have that kind of culture. It's a BAD THING. Clear enough?

Also, your proposed "solution" has some problems. First, it's not a solution. The solution is to change the culture, which you don't address at all.

Second, even if women try to avoid men, that doesn't mean men will permit it.

I'm curious, though. Just exactly why do you think it's okay for women to live lives like men do in prison? You don't seem to want to address the central issue here but talk about other things instead. I understand, you can't win on the central issue, but give it a shot anyway. Why should women have to live in a rape culture as a matter of course, simply for being alive in the world, that, as you've already agreed, men experience in prison?

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Now, the next step for you to take on your journey to becoming a human being

This sums up your diatribe quite well. I dared to disagree with a feminist therefore I am a non human. Thanks for clearing that up for the audience.

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iamvox: you misquoted the only post I've made on this thread so far. That may have been a mistake, but it looks disingenuous at best. Of course I understood exactly what I was saying. Your comparison of men getting raped in prison and women getting raped as free individuals is completely inept and quite sickening. How can you compare the agency of a free woman to the constraint of an incarcerated man? The point is you idiots either don't consider prison rape to be an issue worthy of attention to begin with or you think that the inconvenience you suffer fending off a suitor at a bar is comparable. You clearly have no real understanding of what imprisonment for a man consists of on a day to day basis. And why would you champion Dworkin? A raving-mad, illogical, impractical woman who died from complications stemming from her morbid obesity.

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe f_uck yourself.

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How can you compare the agency of a free woman to the constraint of an incarcerated man?

Because it never occurs to feminists that women have agency in the first place. That's why I suggested to Vox that she shouldn't socialize with men if in her mind doing so is tantamount to a prison sentence, it illustrates her mentality. To her mind "The solution is to change the culture". In other words, its the responsibility of society to bend over backwards and accommodate the paranoid delusions of feminist lunatics, never their responsibility to take care of their own well-being like a fully functional adult.
The point is you idiots either don't consider prison rape to be an issue worthy of attention to begin with or you think that the inconvenience you suffer fending off a suitor at a bar is comparable.

I'm pretty sure its both at the same time. It would be a mistake to underestimate how toxic these rabid feminists can be.

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It's not paranoia when women are being murdered every week in their own homes by their intimate partners. It's not paranoia when people such as yourself spend an awful lot of time trying to skew statistics and change the discussion from women to men. And again, why are we placing the onus on women to not be raped, rather thanplacing the onus on rapists to not rape. Women could have free agency if only society allowed it. Yet in the US many women are currently losing rights to bodily autonomy. People are seeking to limit crimes against women and deny that things like raping a female orally is rape. You cannot have free agency in a society that so clearly is against giving females just that.

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Yes it's paranoia because Feminists have whipped women up into a rape hysteria, convincing them that a rapist is waiting for them around every corner and that every man is just a couple decisions away from becoming a rapist because it's "part of our nature." That's why they object so much to images of scantily clad women, because they think the instant we see beautiful women we become unthinking rape hungry savages.

"Western women are oppressed by being less attractive than video game characters,"-Sarkeesian logic

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That's why they object so much to images of scantily clad women, because they think the instant we see beautiful women we become unthinking rape hungry savages.

I think you give them a bit too much credit, Gul. They hate beautiful women out of sheer jealously, self loathing and spite. That's why they're feminists in the first place. They can never live up to that ideal but rather than try to better themselves and add value to the world they choose to tear down other women using feminist ideology as an excuse. Scratch a feminist, find a misogynist every damn time.

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*sigh*

Or maybe women don't see their value only being their physicality but what they have in their brains and other areas to contribute to society. Perhaps the idea that women must "better themselves" by being more beautiful actually proves the point as to why men treat women as objects and that they are there just for their pleasure.

You know the funny thing is that it really hurts some en that women dar to focus on the issues that are relevant for women, like what this Doco does. Focusing on women's isues isn't evil or paranoia. It's just the wayu the topic is being discussed, and for good reason. You also can't have it both ways, either women need to adjust their behaviours so men can't rape them (because apparently women can prevent rape by not being slutty drunk flirts) as men don't know how to control themselves, or men CAN control themselves despite slutty drunk flirty women and not rape women. Which is it?

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Nice try, A for effort, but I'm not talking about male behavior, I'm talking about what female feminists are doing. Its typical of feminist rhetoric to attempt to change the subject when they are called out on their rubbish. There is unquestionably an undercurrent of misogynistic Mean Girl bullying within contemporary feminism. You can do whatever you want with your life, I don't care, but if you're going to try to publicly tear down others out of envy and malice you well deserve to have it thrown right back in your face.

You also can't have it both ways, either women need to adjust their behaviours so men can't rape them (because apparently women can prevent rape by not being slutty drunk flirts) as men don't know how to control themselves, or men CAN control themselves despite slutty drunk flirty women and not rape women. Which is it?

Women don't need to change their behavior. They need to be held responsible for it.

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It's normal for anybody to call out a person trying to derail a topic by bringng up other topics. The focus of this discussion board is for the docfo that was discussing predominately female rape experiences on college campuses.

Please provide evidence for misogynistic Mean Girl bullying within feminism. I am a feminist. I am female and this is far from my experience. Tearing someone down due to envy and malice has nothign to do with feminism.

So what part of a rape does the woman need to be held responsible for?

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So what part of a rape does the woman need to be held responsible for?

Any irresponsible actions that might have made her vulnerable to an assault in the first place. Say, getting exceedingly drunk and going home with a dude you don't know for example. Notice I didn't say women should be responsible for the actions of their rapist, I said they should be responsible for their OWN actions. If you going to engage in high risk behavior and can't be bothered to keep yourself safe you're not going to get any sympathy from me. I know you feminists can't deal with the oh so-heavy burden of personal responsibility but if you want sit at the grown up table and be taken seriously you're going to have to suck it up.
because apparently women can prevent rape by not being slutty drunk flirts

Pretty much, yeah. Or more to the point, male attention in general. If you don't want male attention, don't signal sexual availability. Simple. By the way, the majority of sexual assaults occurring when women are incapacitated due to their use of substances, primarily alcohol. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf
Please provide evidence for misogynistic Mean Girl bullying within feminism.

That will take a while, it will be a very long post. In the meantime, Vox Day has a nice little list of SJW bullies here: http://sjwlist.com/Main_Page

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So you have little faith in men then if you think women can change their behviour and stop a man raping them. I find this interesting because surely that is sexist against men to believe rthey aren't capable of not raping a woman if the woman shows sexual interest, gets drunk and seems intereested. Do you have that little faith in men that they won't rape women if they act all prim and proper? I personally have a lot more faith in men not rapig women and taking accountability to not rape women no matter wqhat the syituation.

I bet your also one of these men who doesn't believe a woman can be raped in a marriage. Unfortunately for you , it is claer that you are grasping at straws to try and make such a spurious argument stick. Facts really are facts. And right now there is a significant amount of men harming women and children in society. Either through domestic violence, murder, physical or sexual abuse, and rape. Also facts prove that men are pretty much the violent perpetrators in our society. So to ignore those facts and focus on the minutae of women who offend because it doesn't suit your mysogyunistic leanigns is really quite pathetic.

The fact is this: a woman should be able to walk down the street drunk and naked without beign assaulted. Yet no one would suggest they do it because the chance of a man raping her is significant. The person responsible is the rapist. Not the woman. I would remind you many women get raped in situations that do not include them being drunk, sexually flirtatious or placing themselves in any perceived risky situation. Again, the ONLY way to stop women from beign raped is for the rapists to stop raping them.

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The fact is this: a woman should be able to walk down the street drunk and naked without beign assaulted.

Agreed, she should not be raped for this behavior. She should be thrown in jail until she sobers up. Perhaps she should also be registered as a sex offender the same way men who urinate in public are. You know, because "equality".
Yet no one would suggest they do it because the chance of a man raping her is significant.

Is it? Citation needed. Please show me proof that drunk naked women in public are at a higher chance of being raped. You know, becuse...
Facts really are facts.

Of course we're not really talking about what happens in public are we now, Prosodic? We're talking about what happens in private. I think what you want is for women to behave any way she wants in private without consequence. If you prance about in a mans room butt naked guess what? You consented to sex! There is no clearer method of consent than prancing around naked. But while women want sex they don't want to bear the responsibility that comes with it. This is why so very many women engage in last minute resistance with men, many women get turned on by men who are willing to take the risk of going to prison by disregarding the woman's mock protestations.
I would remind you many women get raped in situations that do not include them being drunk, sexually flirtatious or placing themselves in any perceived risky situation.

Sure they do but they are in the minority. Once again: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf When you lose the ability to be responsible for yourself, you drastically increase the chances that you will attract the kinds of people who, shall we say, don’t have your best interest at heart. That’s not blaming the victim, that’s trying to prevent more victims. This is why, despite all their bloviation, I know feminist aren't really interested in reducing rape. They want to grant women the privilege of being able to act in any manner they choose without any legal or social repercussions. Personally I wouldn't even mind that aspect of feminism all that much except you don't want the same granted to men. Should men be allowed to "walk down the street drunk and naked" and be "sexually flirtatious" with women? Don't bother answering, of course you don't and if you said you did in the name of equality you'd be lying, I know it and everyone reading this knows it.
I bet your also one of these men who doesn't believe a woman can be raped in a marriage.

Quite the staw-man you have there Prosodic! Tell me, what else do I believe in my heart of hearts? I've never been psychoanalyzed by a feminist before! For the record, I'm no traditionalist. While marriage is unquestionably beneficial to society, it is a net negative for men and is therefore dying out. The reasons for this have nothing to do with whether rape is legal within the institution or not.
And right now there is a significant amount of men harming women and children in society.

And how many women harm children? More women harm children in society than men, even when controlled for the fact women are more often caretakers, and boys are more likely to be the ones killed, either through violence or neglect: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2012.pdf#page=76.
Also facts prove that men are pretty much the violent perpetrators in our society.

A serious problem to be sure. Perhaps you ladies should, I dunno, stop rewarding violent male adolescents with sex: http://evp.sagepub.com/content/13/4/1474704915613909.full.pdf+html

Just a thought.
So you have little faith in men then if you think women can change their behviour and stop a man raping them. I find this interesting because surely that is sexist against men to believe rthey aren't capable of not raping a woman if the woman shows sexual interest, gets drunk and seems intereested.

You have no idea whatsoever what it is like being a man. None. You have absolutely no business fielding an opinion on the matter. This is complete and total ignorance on your part. Embarrassingly so. You haven't the foggiest clue how strong the sex drive is in men. If you did you would be on your knees thankful that you don't live in an actual rape culture, where women would in fact be reduced to nothing more that sexual objects, and nothing more. Caged up like animals, the property of men. You have no idea how lucky women are. It easily could have ended up that way, given that it was largely men who built civilization. The fact that didn't happen is the clearest proof of all of the innate benevolence men have always displayed towards women.

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That was an epic response. Seriously.

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You have no idea whatsoever what it is like being a man. None. You have absolutely no business fielding an opinion on the matter."...."You haven't the foggiest clue how strong the sex drive is in men."


Why shouldn't we have an idea of what it is like being a man? You've "built a civilization" that revolves around and accommodates a man's priorities and perspective. And you, poster, continue to appoint yourself as the arbiter of everybody else's reality. I mean, look at you. You can't even tolerate the notion of affording space for a variety of perspectives. Here's one right now: During the peak of my athletic training, and whether due to strenuous exercise and/or changing hormone levels, or for reasons yet unknown, I experienced a spike in my libido that became physically painful - so yes, I know what a strong sex drive feels like, and I still didn't go out and rape anybody. And I'm putting that particular card on the table despite exposing myself to ridicule and blah blah "nymphomaniac" and other such terms which shame and discourage women from talking candidly about their drives - even with their own doctors.

"Caged animals, the property of men"? We already live in an actual rape culture where women are in fact
reduced to nothing more than sexual objects and nothing more
- and very occasionally, they break their chains and escape the basements in which they've been kept, and repeatedly raped by their captor(s), for years. Oh, maybe you meant that free women should just shut up and be grateful we're not them. Or what? We stand in support and solidarity with those women - because ALL of us share the same kind of risks every single time we put a foot out our front door; risks which are supposedly almost negligible, but of which we are constantly reminded - not least from your own posts. You liked painting that picture of caged and subjugated women for us, didn't you? It is you who has no idea of women - and the ways in which our strength is taken for granted and our worth dismissed.

It was also largely [if not exclusively] men who built the slave trade. Apparently, none of those slaves were women. Oh wait. Black women don't register on your radar. And don't even bother with the who "started slavery" and "what color they were" argument - because, as you said yourself, "it was largely men who built civilization" - so take credit for the slave trade as well, and/or admit that "civilization" was really built FOR you by those whom you enslaved.

And by the way? You are conflating a man's exuberant and healthy sex drive with the violent entitlement of a rapist. Rape turns normal men off - and normal men also have a need/desire to bond with their partners - though I already know you discourage that kind of "fag nonsense". "Real men" just go ahead and "take what they want" - right? Right? Tell us just one sincere story about a caring sexual relationship/experience you've had with a woman. Tell us just one sincere story about the time you successfully resolved an interpersonal conflict with a woman.

As it stands now, though, just about everything you've said here, and the ways in which you have said them, conform with a rapist's rationalizations. There is simply no other explanation for you at this point.





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And you think that hate-speech and propaganda against men and men alone is going to help control the minds of 3 billion people on this planet?? That's delusional. Rape will never end until some psychotic feminist / mangina creates a device to read and control minds.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

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THE PROBLEM is that it's so easy for our society to focus on women's issues and ignore male issues, because we can be so gynocentric. It's wrong to force men to adhere to new rules and new guidelines of conduct if those rules and guidelines do not apply to men as well.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

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