Democrats hate rape culture, think it is morally reprehensible, and that it has no place in our society.
Republicans hate rap culture, think it is morally reprehensible, and that it has no place in our society.

Answering once more in order of your queries:

-More or less, yeah. I think that if we socialized girls and boys in the same sorts of ways, they'd probably tend to wind up more behaviorally alike in adulthood.

-Aaaah, but WHY do people feel these particular kinds of attractions? Is it necessarily, for example, just "in the blood" for men to aesthetically prefer physically frail women or might that preference reflect a conditioned need to feel superior? Conversely, women tend to prefer muscular men, I believe, because we are taught to believe that we are, to use an expression I have heard many times in my life, "the weaker sex" (physically, mentally, and emotionally, all; basically, we're conditioned to view ourselves as inferior in every way) and accordingly seek protection from without (physically, financially, etc.).

If it is so despised by politicians, then why is Donald Trump still my president right now? How did he get there in the first place? Why is Eric Greitens still the governor of Missouri? These things keep happening.

The MeToo Movement started a social media movement. Now it is up to politicians and the justice system to initiate laws to make change and end rape culture.

"Is it necessarily, for example, just "in the blood" for men to aesthetically prefer physically frail women or might that preference reflect a conditioned need to feel superior? Conversely, women tend to prefer muscular men, I believe, because we are taught to believe that we are, to use an expression I have heard many times in my life, "the weaker sex""

ah i see where you are going with this, that's very interesting, maybe with time attraction will change so that people find the opposite sex more attractive when their appearance is closer to their own sex

I don't know! Because voters hate rap more than rape?

Jesus Christ, here we go again with your inability to comprehend what is right in front of your face.

Even if we take the study prima facie it does NOT support your idea of "rape culture" which would be a predominant view (see: normalized) that rape is acceptable. Your own source is replete with issues and at best only supports the notion of 1/6th of society normalizing rape. (1/2 male, then 1/3 of males). In what universe is that normalized?

Now, let's move forward to the actual study which involved a mere 73 men on a single campus. That's problem 1. Problem two for you is when the question is presented as a rape shown here:

When asked whether they would act on “intentions to rape a woman” with the same assurances they wouldn’t face consequences, just 13.6 percent of participants agreed.

So now we're entering sub 7% of the population.

Problem three is trying to compare India to any Western culture at all as if it were an analogous setting. 

It's just insane to me that you cannot even be bothered to take a step backward from your intransigence to see things objectively as they are.

"Even if we take the study prima facie it does NOT support your idea of "rape culture" which would be a predominant view"

a culture does not have to be the predominant view of the society... west indians for example have a particular type of culture that differs from most of the society but they are still a part of the society

"Problem two for you is when the question is presented as a rape shown here:

When asked whether they would act on “intentions to rape a woman” with the same assurances they wouldn’t face consequences, just 13.6 percent of participants agreed."

...which was the point

"But, when the researchers actually used the word “rape” in their question, those numbers dropped much lower — suggesting that many college men don’t associate the act of forcing a woman to have sex with them with the crime of committing rape."

the point being that the men did not consider coercing a woman to have sex to be a crime/rape... how did you not understand that?

"Problem three is trying to compare India to any Western culture at all as if it were an analogous setting. "

which was not the main point of this thread... the point was simply that women who face a more severe problem with rape in indian have looked to arming themselves as a solution and i'm asking if that may be a viable solution for the problems with the rape culture in the west

"It's just insane to me that you cannot even be bothered to take a step backward from your intransigence to see things objectively as they are."

and what would be the objective way of viewing things in this context?

ah i remember you, you're that guy that posted all of that nonsense on my wall because you couldn't understand the connection between technology and waste... how are you man?

As many others have said, guns would not be a solution, but they might instead make the problem worse.

And to the bolded, so you don´t like to please your partner, because that somehow would make you a bad man? Pain and pleasure can go hand in hand, there is nothing wrong in concensual kinkiness, its doesn´t make anyone bad.

And as someone said, when alcohol is in the picture, it can make it difficult to know if something that happened was a rape or if it wasn´t. Two adults who are equally drunk and together decide to have sex, should be allowed to do so, but if one is clearly more intoxicated then its not even ground and the other one should understand that and refuse to have sex or at least not manipulate the other into sex.

But yeah, there is a lot of grey area there and not every rape is as much rape as another rape.

If it doesn't exist, that pretty much makes this whole thread moot.  And, it is clear to anyone that has actually experienced life in "western culture" that such a thing does not exist.  

Exactly. Now I think we're on the same page.