Jim

_Robert_ wrote:
Let’s not call out asshole individuals for their crimes and separate them from females. No, it’s a “cultural” fault. No individual is ever responsible.

You’re right, it’s a good question, what’s the link between culture (when every culture condemns rape) and behaviour?  Rape used to be a crime of theft against the man, in Western…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized every new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God’s blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.”

I think that the Church provides power…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Simon Paynton wrote: But which ever way you look at it, it’s very common, and much more common for women than for men.

Outside prison.

Never took stock from Rape of a Lock.

There is an old tradition in Ireland of never accepting a lock of hair from your lover (even if she is called Arabella).

I have long contended that religion is the source of most of the sexual dysfunction in the world. None of them hold that women should be treated the same way as men. The Old Testament…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Hey Reg how about an illuminating article in Sunday School about rape culture? It is new on me so i withold judgment on whether the left is onto something valid or it is more left BS like Islamophobia.

As I understand it, rape culture is the culture of it being OK to violate women’s rights sexually.

Simon Paynton wrote:
But which ever way you look at it, it’s very common, and much more common for women than for men.

Wrong again: “Because of the high prison population in the United States the country has become probably the first and only in the world where rape of men is more common than of women.” (source)

Hey Reg how about an illuminating article in Sunday School about rape culture? It is new on me so i withold judgment on whether the left is onto something valid or it is more left BS like Islamophobia.

I can say with some confidence that diminishing power of religions is a good way to reduce rape/molestation. And it follows that honoring…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Reg and Simon, When Taylor Swift and her throng of teenie girlie followers can actually throw an Election for CEO of the most powerful nation on Earth, I think we can safely say that “The Patriarchy” is nowhere near as powerful as it was in previous times. Bill Maher would most likely concur: <iframe title=”Could Tay…

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unapologetic wrote:
The article on ‘He Gets Us’ reminds me of the Jay & Silent Bob movie (I forgot the name) where George Carlin plays a preacher who rolls out a statue of “Buddy Jesus” to get young people into the church.

My wife was wondering why the jesus foot fetish? Lets not go after cancer, all-powerful lord. No, let’s wash feet instead…[Read more]

Reg and Simon,

When Taylor Swift and her throng of teenie girlie followers can actually throw an Election for CEO of the most powerful nation on Earth, I think we can safely say that “The Patriarchy” is nowhere near as powerful as it was in previous times. Bill Maher would most likely…[Read more]

So exactly how are we “enabling rape culture” (besides pro-Islamic liberals who conveniently look the other way when millions of enslaved females are treated like dogshit in every Muslim country)?

I guess schools and colleges are encouraging gangs of raping men and football teams too run around and rape or something? I guess the police refuse to…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
Stop enabling rape culture.

Yes, it’s patriarchal and misogynistic.

The effort being made to Down play the prevalence of rape and sexual assault is sickening. This enables rape culture. You should be horrified by these statistics, not trying to fight them. Stop enabling rape culture.

Unseen wrote:
Her point, since you missed it, is that there are no gold standard statistics and yet these 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 “statistics” are bandied about as if they are true.

It’s hard to be sure of the exact statistics like you say.  The college statistics put it at 10% – 29%.  So there’s a wide range.  But which ever way you look at it, it’s v…[Read more]

@ Simon

Her point, since you missed it, is that there are no gold standard statistics and yet these 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 “statistics” are bandied about as if they are true.

Also, what is a rape is a matter for definition. In the movies of the past, men often grabbed a woman and kissed her. Some advocates today would call that at least a sexual…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Instead, tell me how she’s wrong.

She doesn’t actually come up with a figure for lifetime sexual assaults and rapes.  She comes up with a figure for one year, from the crime survey.  This crime is vastly under-reported according to the Department of Justice.

The lifetime rape figures for the US (1 in 6 to 1 in 5) aren’t too dif…[Read more]

The article on ‘He Gets Us’ reminds me of the Jay & Silent Bob movie (I forgot the name) where George Carlin plays a preacher who rolls out a statue of “Buddy Jesus” to get young people into the church.

Your statistics are bogus:

She is a conservative feminist (not an oxymoron). Don’t pull a poisoning the well on me by rejecting the source out of hand. Instead, tell me how she’s wrong.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Through it all, I can’t help but wonder if my trainee’s mis-match with cashiering is also a nasty aftertaste of the teachings of Hamid Al-Ghazali, which Neil DeGrasse Tyson detailed here:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy.

I don’t know about this article.  I get the central premise, that women aren’t listened to and have to keep their mouths shut to avoid rocking the boat.  The statistics don’t lie.  That’s a valuable lesson for men, to listen to women more.  But it seems a bit inc…[Read more]