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In reply to the discussion: The rape threads point to a larger need...revolutionary change in what it is to be "a man". [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)66. I never actually read the original post that seems to have started all this.
please send me a link to it in a pm.
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The rape threads point to a larger need...revolutionary change in what it is to be "a man". [View all]
Ken Burch
Dec 2012
OP
As a guy who has done a lot of things that many would call "manly" while in the military and stuff
Victor_c3
Dec 2012
#3
Do you have any source for the numbers you so blithely toss about? - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#19
"fightthenewdrug" list, among their 'scientific' sources, James Dobson and Donald Hilton.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#85
According to the DOJ, the forcible rape rate has decreased approx. 25% since the 1992 peak.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#109
Right, the definition was changed in 2011. The data reflects the old definition.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#140
Any article using that leaderu crap as a source is extremely tainted, imo...
Violet_Crumble
Dec 2012
#147
the decline can also be the concerted effort of police force across the nation to downgrade rapes
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#40
For that to work, statistically, this would have to be a uniform concerted effort that has gotten
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#118
yes and you can find documention starting in the 90's. i have provided it so many times
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#123
you don't want to do something about the 25% of your friends and family that will be raped?
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#53
But see. these posts are a reaction to crazy ideas in their heads...LOL.. now I'm wanting to deprive
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#74
we really cannot escape the fact that rape is 98% done by men. and we won't STFU because this
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#56
You're issue was we're unfair to the small percentage of men who are victims because we
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#117
The original "witch hunts" actually led to men(often churchmen) having women burned to death.
Ken Burch
Dec 2012
#72
Women still are property in a significant part of the world, and they rely on men elsewhere
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#34
Ken, at the risk of sounding like one of those doctrinaire Soviets, I would argue that
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#23
Changing masculinity can, in fact, be part of the process of changing the system of exploitation.
Ken Burch
Dec 2012
#70
A beautiful and evocative description of dialectics (where superstructure
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#84
love your post. it is easy in the parenting. no one looses. it is win, win, win
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#41
the fixation with winning and dominance at any cost is displayed in most posts attempting to quell
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#61
"It's on us men"? Okay, well here's the starting point: award child custody to fathers.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2012
#44
why are all the man posts advocating for more for them, LOL. Porn, custody rights...
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#54
Wow- you suggest women who were raped should "get over it" because your wife did?
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#94
MRA buddy, damn straight the MRA will tell us women false claim rape 45-75%, those.... right?
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#103
As I expected... I've been accused of Misgyony simple for expression my position.
jimlup
Dec 2012
#137
super enlightening comments after this blog post about how difficult friends and SOs can find it
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#58
Um... plenty here think "the onus of rape prevention should be on women" but you missed all that.
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#80
Rape is the fault and responsibility of white cis gender hetrosexuals!! nt
cecilfirefox
Dec 2012
#92
This is such a great post that really speaks the truth. I wish I could recommend it a million times
LiberalLoner
Dec 2012
#120
society doesn't prize those things only in men, it prizes them *period,* in all things.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#141