We have neither a rape culture nor an abortion culture. We have a culture in which rape is regarded as one of the worst crimes ever and reproductive freedom is a right. I like this culture. https://twitter.com/MitchumsGhost/status/983864799867080705 …
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"an accusation can sink people utterly" - but reality shows it doesn't, like roman polanski, trump, roy moore, r. kelly. They do represent a large part of our society - roy moore was very close to winning, almost half of the people who voted for him thought the accusations were..
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They don't. They represent a few individuals who have significance to people for other ideological/political reasons.
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Which is exactly the point - if people really took rape seriously the significance of those people wouldn't matter. It's like if someone is your favorite artist or politican you give them a free pass for rape. That's not how a culture that takes rape seriously work.
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I'm not convinced of this. I think this is better explained by people's willingness to rationalise or overlook things when it suits their larger ideological/political purposes. I'd agree that people don't rape so much more seriously than everything else that it overcomes this.
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There's also the issue of what happens when we remove the word rape and just talk about what's acceptable and what's not. I remember a talk with some guy friends (all of them I consider good people) where someone asked in the middle - if a girl tells you to stop right before---
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you orgasm, what do you do? None of them even understood they're talking about sexual assault.
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