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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I can't assign anything to rape culture. It swallows all concepts around both rape itself and apologists for rape and sexual assault.

But I do know just a little bit about grammar, and when you add "culture" to a word, it usually means a culture that embraces a thing. "Car culture," "art culture," "gun culture," etc. So any person who's not involved in the academic communities that discuss "rape culture" would hear "rape culture" and think, Wait a minute... Is there a culture that's into rape? WTF? And then, of course, you'd swoop in with your totally clear definition from Wikipedia (the whole paragraph's worth of it, incorporating numerous discrete concepts) and say, "No, in this instance, we're using 'culture' to define people who apologize for sexual assault." The person hearing this would then assume, as I have here, That's pretty inartful. Why the fuck wouldn't you just call it what it is: Rape Denial, or Rape Apologism.

Apologism isn't a word, but never mind that. We're making up words here!

I find it amazing that you can lump "gun culture" into an argument against "rape culture" without understanding how similar the two concepts are. I'd be floored if you were anyone else.

TM