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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's fun to see you parse and correct someone else's use of language.
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I learned from the master?
And at least we argued over an actual word. The biggest problem with "rape culture" is it can mean anything the speaker desires. It sounds really nasty and gets huge effect, but what the fuck does it mean? Does it mean whatever the speaker "feels" it should mean in the moment? Does it mean the seventy year old woman who told me yesterday that these Kavanaugh accusers were paid by Soros is part of "rape culture"? I mean, I was putting her and those like her in the "loony" box all along. Have I been mischaracterizing them? And what's a member of "rape culture" called? A "rape aficionado"? A "rape enthusiast"? "Pro-sexual-assault"? Is there a convention? I don't want to stay at any hotel where that convention's been...
Call these people women haters, misogynists... those fit. And they're pretty sharp indictments. But this all-or-nothing thinking ("if you don't believe her, you're part of rape culture!") and these silly fucking words do no favors for the movement. It's perhaps a sad irony that adults tend to be less interested in radical change than kids, but that change can only be effected when people demanding it converse like adults, but that's the way things work.
