Can the Rape Culture in the West be Reduced with Guns?

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Jumpin said:

On the concept of "rape culture" - I am not so certain that exists in the West - unless you go by a looser Swedish-type definition.

If you go to some countries, and some specific areas of countries, there definitely is a sort of a culture where men are encouraged to manipulate, dehumanize, and harass women, and this is deemed "just being a man." It's a belief that men (or masculine men) are inherently uncontrollable around women and should be expected to be always trying to get in every woman's pants. Ironically, you see this sort of stuff in the socially-conservative regions where sex is considered more shameful.

I don't know if that is quite "rape culture," but it is definitely a normalization and encouragement of some very toxic behaviour in the name of masculinity. Masculinity is different in different areas - so, to Germans, the Latin American idea of masculinity is VEEEERRRY different from ours; neither is right or wrong, just different. In some cultures, it is seen as masculine to beat up women and establish dominance; and in the vast majority of the west (sadly not all) of the west, this is seen as reprehensible or animal-like, and the opposite of masculine behaviour.

 

 

Then there is râpé culture, which is also bad!

Going by a looser definition, we should start discussing the "western murder culture"... whatever that is.