| o_O.Q said: the study is corroborated with other statistics http://www.arlingtonwestsantamonica.org/MST.html
"Would you care to elaborate on how I am incorrect" because you stated that "rape culture" is not about how often rapes occur and that's wrong yes its about attitudes that lead to rape but its also about how often the act occurs
"Do you believe we live in a "rape culture"?" you already presumed what my stance is on this by stating that i "neither support the opinions you are linking, nor fully understand those opinions." with no evidence that this is the case so it seems you are already prepared to call me a liar, so why bother asking now? |
1) Stop dodging the question and answer it. If my assumptions were wrong, tell me that they were wrong. Don't play coy. Do you believe we live in a rape culture?
2) And do you think that those other statistics are a representative sample?
3) To quote your own links:
"To understand rape culture better, first we need to understand that it’s not necessarily a society or group of people that outwardly promotes rape (although it could be).
When we talk about rape culture, we’re discussing something more implicit than that. We’re talking about cultural practices (that, yes, we commonly engage in together as a society) that excuse or otherwise tolerate sexual violence.
We’re talking about the way that we collectively think about rape.
More often than not, it’s situations in which sexual assault, rape, and general violence are ignored, trivialized, normalized, or made into jokes."
Nothing in that definition states anything which contradicts Rol's point. The understood possibility that every male has a reasonable likelihood of raping you is not fundamental to the definition of rape culture, and as such the idea does not hold any argumentative power in this context. To bring it up shows a fundamental misunderstanding and misapplication of the concept.
