we need to talk
about the "here's a thought, teach men not to rāpe" thing a bunch of people like to say.
Here’s a thought: Men are more likely to be the victims of every violent crime except for sexual crimes in the United States. We need to teach men AND women to take precautions.
Here’s a thought: Teaching rāpists not to rāpe will work just as well as teaching murderers not to murder, kidnappers not to kidnap, terrorists not to blow stuff up, school shooters not to shoot up schools… We’ve abolished all of those things in our society by telling people not to do them, so why not rāpe?!
Oh wait. Here’s a thought: Maybe we also need to teach women not to rāpe, seeing as forty percent of rāpists are female
Here’s a thought: Rāpe has always existed and will always exist, for both men and women. Rāpe is never the fault of the victim. But if we actually want less people being rāped as opposed to societal damning of men, we need to encourage reasonable precautions for both men and women. Telling ‘men not to rāpe’ does not reduce the number of rāpes. Teaching people how to stay safe does.
Here’s a thought: The only rāpe culture I’m seeing here is you telling men, 1.27 million of them who were rāped by women in the USA in 2010 compared to the 1.27 million women rāped by men in the USA in 2010, that they need to stop rāpe, whether or not they’re victims themselves. When men made up HALF of rāpe victims in twenty ten. HALF. Not even including prison inmates. Think about that.
This is a reality and it needed to be said.
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