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In reply to the discussion: There's a lot of pushback when you point out and challenge examples of rape culture... [View all]joelbny
(21 posts)Yeah no one is trying to excuse rapists, at least I hope not. These kids need to spend some serious time behind bars.
But if 1 out of 3 women gets raped, who is doing all this raping? And why is so much of the massive quantity of internet porn out there so misogynistic and aggressive? For that matter, why do the masses pay so much money to watch movies that focus inordinately on violence and sex?
The idea that the capacity to rape or be violent seems to be in so many humans' nature is just a possibly falsifiable/verifiable hypothesis to explain the observed phenomena, not a normative statement of validation....
Hopefully civilization will stick around and humanity's instincts will progressively become more humane, and in the meantime, damn right people are expected to control themselves and be held responsible for their actions. No validation there....