Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

this right here is a post really ripe for a whiff, or maybe it was unintentional?

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

You're a cis male if your gender identity matches your gender assigned at birth. If someone mentions it in connection with your ignorance, they are offering it as an explanation for why you are ignorant. It's only an insult if you think your gender identity means you don't need to think about the experiences of others.

Rape culture is not a group. It's a phenomenon.

Yes, just like "male bonding culture" except rape culture is a concept that's actually been pretty well described. You just haven't read about it.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

They're free to use their terms, and I'm free to be a crotchety old traditionalist, looking down my nose at them.

Fuck 'em. I also don't like ending sentences with prepositions.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

I don't know that I've ever heard anyone say an person is part of rape culture, versus that person's behavior, attitude or argument.

I mean, I'm sure it happens but it's not really what the concept is about.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

I've not been watching. Kindly cite me the quotes where they advocate for more rape and light treatment of rape.

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Oh, I see. When someone says somebody is complicit in rape culture, he only means the person's behavior, but not the person, is culpable.

I didn't rob the bank, Judge. That was just my actions. Jail them.

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I don't. And they don't have to think about mine.

When did empathy become the most important of human virtues?

Our only duty to each other is tolerance. The idea we all have to learn about others' experiences and empathize with them all is silliness. The only thing we must do is leave each other to live as we feel like living. In other words, leave your trans neighbor to live as the person likes, and don't try to inflict your views on this person. And vice versa. If you want to empathize, great. But it's not an obligation.

A culture is comprised of people. Rape Denial is a phenomenon.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

Yes, dude, and this isn't the first time you've failed to see that these things are more than personal insults.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

You do if you don't want to be an asshole. Obviously, this is not an issue for you.

Whenever humans first evolved to live in societal groups instead of individually.

You, as a cis white male, cannot do this without reckoning with how the inherent advantages you enjoy do not apply to others and, in fact, your identity prevents others from living how they feel like living.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

I don't see much sign that you've read the ones previously provided, so, yeah, go educate yourself.

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I rescind calling you unserious. You're card carrying nuts.

Re: Catholic boys start much too late.
 

You've convinced me. I'm going to go rob that bank.

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Your head is in the sand and you like it that way.

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You're looney tunes, dude. Totally fucking looney tunes. My existence is the cause of others' disadvantages? Look, I get the concept, but that statement? That's exactly the kind of thing that can only said on a campus. You can't say shit like that in reality, in a room filled with rational, pragmatic people. People would whisper under their breath, "Who's your crazy friend?"

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What's important to you about words like "white privilege" "cis male" and "rape culture" is how they make you feel. Or how they make people to whom they apply feel. That's seriously fucked up.

Oh, right, you've no obligation to think about how they affect people to whom they don't apply (or apply differently), because that would be empathy, which is a thing that only crazy people do.

Strangely, you can grasp the criminal justice system generating unfair outcomes, but you also bristle at "racism" involving anything other than outright, expressed animus. Why do you have empathy for the unjustly imprisoned, but not for the unjustly withheld from opportunity? Is it first hand experience with the system, thus giving you a proximity you don't have on other issues. Or is it just the obvious involvement of the state (which is harder to see in other contexts)?