Yes, let’s talk about rape culture. Let’s start with the facts. False accusations and false convictions happen. A lot. Women are not devoid of the retaliatory instinct common to all human beings, male or female. One way to retaliate against someone is to make a false accusation against them and hope it sticks. Rape-shield laws have exacerbated the problem by increasing the likelihood that an accusation - true or false - will stick, by overturning basic, long-standing principles of jurisprudence.
Not surprisingly, rape is common in prison. Men are the primary victims of prison rape. It is primarily the innocent, petty criminals and non-gang members who are victimized. There is essentially no recourse, so that prison rape is essentially de facto legal. Talk about a rape culture!
And now, the TSA airline checkpoints have become a denizen of de jure digital rape. Sexual assault victims and rape victims passing through these checkpoints run the risk of being traumatized by being forced to relive the experience of being forcibly touched in sensitive areas - which depending on the exuberance of the TSA goon may even include the rectal area, the scrotum, and the labial folds. Same sex screenings does not solve the problem since many rape/sexual assault victims are actually victims of someone of the same sex or the issue of the gender of the assaulting individual may have been irrelevant - it was the fact that an unwelcome touch was forced upon them that caused the emotional trauma.
Foster homes are another State-sponsored institution where rape occurs with little or not recourse. Children sent to foster homes have reached the last stop in the State’s child grist-mill… child protection agencies are reluctant to lose foster parents, even supposing that a victimized child is aware of his or her ability to seek recourse with the child protection agency.
American college campuses have become havens of debauchery. Many of the participants in the Girls Gone Wild porn movies are college-aged women engaging in licentious and debauched behavior. Rape, no doubt, occurs, is likely under-reported, and there may very well be something that can be described as a macho rape-culture in the college fraternities. High-school footballers - such as these Steubenville kids - are in a pipeline leading to the frat-boy parties and associated debauchery - including the sinister aspects of hazing, assault, battery, and even rape - that are necessarily associated with such licentious behavior.
The problem is in generalizing this. How is it that privileged, proto-frat-boy, high-school footballers are a representative sample of “men”?? And how is it that you intend to stem the tide of rape culture by turning attention away from commonplace, daily de jure rape committed by TSA thugs at airline checkpoints 365 days a year, onto a speculative, subjective, and clearly biased claim that “men” have a de facto “rape culture” among them?? It seems to me that the first step in stopping de facto rape is to stop de jure rape. But perhaps I’m just one of these mythical creatures that doesn’t know rape is bad.
Clayton -