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In reply to the discussion: Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture) [View all]TeamsterDem
(1,173 posts)and right in the title of the topic it says "men need to learn." You see, when a title contains words such as these which provide their own context, then it becomes part of the topic as well, just as the fact that the article in no small measure discusses men and their abetting of rape within it. Therefore, my intentionally-obtuse friend, men are an inherent part of the topic. How couldn't they be? They were mentioned in the title and the article which buttressed it.
With respect to men helping to end rape, I most certainly have addressed that very topic on a multitude of occasions. Your zeal in attacking me and making my life into the topic (something which you're now ever-so-hypocritically blaming on me) you simply shot right past it while imagining of how to next exaggerate my words to say what you'd like them to so you can more adequately address them. That, however, is your failing, not mine.
I never said nor implied that rape is not my problem or that I'm not worried about it. What I did say - numerous times, in fact - is that rape being wrong doesn't excuse another wrong being said in its advocacy. That is, someone discussing rape doesn't just inherit the right to offend others with wide-ranging stereotypes simply because of the gravity of the subject. And in fact one would think that such a serious subject would warrant more serious thinking than shotgunning all men into some universal group all the while asking for their help in combating something.
What you're doing is failing to read what I say, instead assuming I'm saying things that I am not. In no way did I diminish the horrific nature of rape simply by saying that the thread was poorly titled and that it probably isn't helpful to offend such a broad group with careless and ignorant stereotypes while asking that they help in combating the problem. Again, for all of your spinning and attempts to twist the topic into me and my life and my actions, you still can't answer how stereotypes are acceptable and why. I'm merely continuing to respond because I refuse to cede that men don't deserve the same consideration vis-a-vis not being subjected to bigotry, and for that you've labeled me everything in the book - while complaining that I've offended you - and are stunned at why there are many responses to that end. Well, if you thought that my posts were derailing the topic I'm sure you could've reported that, and I'm equally sure that someone who was truly concerned about that would've simply ignored the posts. But you didn't. Thus they are valid concerns, they're not shared by you, but your repeated responses indeed indicate that they are valid. No one responds to posts with absolutely no validity to them.