No, I will not feel gender guilt

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91. It is appropriate to use the term "rape culture" not because all of the males are complicit but

because all of the perpetrators are male.

If there wasn't something in the culture that would make it in somewhat permissible then you would not find that virtually 100% of those conducting sexual assault as being male:

I don't find focusing on male behavior to be particularly over stated, nor do I feel personally responsible for it although it is somewhat embarrassing when typical male locker room banter is brought out into general discussion under the assumption that it will be warmly received in a non locker room environment.


When women start to account for say 30% of all sexual assaults instead of 99% then I think we could begin to ask folks to stop speculating on general male behavior that might contribute to a 'culture of rape'. Given that it is almost universally a problem of one sex against another it is fair to ask if, among the other problems, language and general use of language doesn't somehow contribute to a culture where sexual assault is more likely likely to be conducted by one sex over another by a factor of 100:1.

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF

In 1994 victims reported about 1 rape/sexual assault victimization of a female victim for every 270 females
in the general population; for males, the rate was substantially lower, with about 1 rape/sexual assault of a male
victim for every 5,000 male residents age 12 or older.

Per capita rates of rape/sexual assault were found to be highest among residents age 16 to 19, low-income
residents, and urban residents. There were no significant differences in the rate of rape/sexual assault among racial
groups.

Overall, an estimated 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault were female. Nearly 99% of the offenders
they described in single-victim incidents were male.

If it wasn't a cultural issue then you could argue that it was entirely biological but you find wildly differing rates of rape, in part due to wildly different cultural acceptance of reporting rape.

But given two culturally very culturally similar countries like Canada and the US it is difficult to understand why the US has rapes at a rate of 30 times that of Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics