Re: There but for the grace of etc.
 

I don't think most liberal arts academics are terribly serious people. If you were trying to solve a serious problem with a pragmatic response, would you invite a liberal arts academic who'd never worked outside a campus to offer input? Maybe. But hesitantly at best.

I liked drinking with liberal arts academics. I like navel gazing with liberal arts academics. But they very rarely have the capacity to engage in pragmatic problem solving. That's a lot of why they self-select to where they are.

ETA: I took loads of classes on feminist themes in literature. First, all deconstruction of books is kind of mental masturbation. These themes people claim to find are rarely if ever actually intended by the author. But those classes were uniquely silly. We'd find references to menstruation in some 15th century poem that clearly was not really there. We'd torture texts to come up with feminist or chauvinist intent where none was present. Oddly, we never read Fear of Flying in those classes. That was introduced to me by a salty old male professor: "This is a book about a woman having sex they way she feels like having sex." He was right. And that's all anyone had to say about that book.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

I don't think any of those men is working hard to rape anyone or see more rapes occur or go unpunished. I think they're struggling mightily to deny an attempted rape occurred.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I'm not watching. What's happening?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

did you know toll house cookies were invented in Egypt? supposedly by an American but you know that can be faked.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

That's an insane post. That principal is creating an environment where sexual assault is tolerated. He should be fired. That he's considering expelling her is mind-bending.

But the fact that this shit is upsetting, that it's been tolerated for too long -- it doesn't license us to degrade the language. These shorthand words that are appearing in the culture are turning serious conversations into binary conversations. You think Occupy had a point? You're an SJW. Are you straight and unaware of LGBT issues? You're CIS Male (dropped pejoratively). You think Kavanaugh's innocent? You're part of Rape Culture.

We seem to have a massive societal hard-on for categorizing people these days. You're this. He's that. She's this. You're thinking makes you X, Y, or Z. Here's how I identify you. Here is your group.

Rape Culture is an attempt - I think a failed one - to lump a ton of things under a single descriptive. We have untold numbers of words to describe the varying types of behavior comprising this societal rape denial. Why simplify? So we can fit something on Twitter? So we can blurt it out in a 30 second live hit on cable news?

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

so it's like "white privilege?" It oversimplifies? But it does convey a general thought doesn't it? Like Ty said with weather. My privilege isn't exactly Adder's, I'd explain it differently anyway. But it is short hand to convey a concept.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

adder ggg thurgred and you are engaging sebby on another vapid point?

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

I take it you didn't read the rest of the wikipedia article? The term has been around since the 70s.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

"Weather" is an attempt -- I think a failed one -- to lump a ton of things under a single descriptive. We have untold numbers of words to describe varying types of atmospheric conditions relating to temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, etc., and if we need more we can always borrow from the Eskimos. Why simplify? So we can fit something on Twitter? So we can go to weather.com instead of compexmultiplecategoriesofatmosphericphenonema.com? Hello? Why do you think God invented browser bookmarks?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

As the Bible says, nothing is new under the sun.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

It's gained broad prominence recently. Previously, it was relegated to the campus. Now I hear it all over the place.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

It's a shorthand way to associate a person or group of people with a criminal act or affirmative support for that act.

It's like "drug culture," another dumb descriptive. A pot smoker, cokehead, and smack fiend are not the same animal.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

Well, then you just need to adjust and understand what people seem to mean- like I don't like the term "White privilege." See for me "privileged" were the kids from Grosse Pointe, and i was the not-privileged in comparison- I don't like the word choice- but it was chosen so I'm stuck with it. I can process what it means and consider thoughts tied to it, I mean i understand the concept.

Similarly "rape culture" means attitudes and behavior that lead to men behaving badly generally, and sometimes raping, yes, but it is more than that. might "boorish men behaviour culture" been more broadly accurate? Maybe. But no one here coined the phrase. "Only God works from whole cloth, man must work with what came before."

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

Is a handjob sex? How about a blowjob? Cunnilingus?

You say you had sex with someone, 99.9% of people assume intercourse. You say someone is part of Rape Culture, and 99.9% of people (not on campuses) think you're involved in or somehow associated with a horrible criminal act.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

Again, you say this because you ignore the things they have said.