America’s Boys: A Bunch of Budding Little Rapists

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-09-02 00:32

Article here. Excerpt:

'This is an excerpt from a Rolling Stone interview with the author of a new book on rape culture, Asking for It. Since it is Rolling Stone, of course there is a kind of shill factor. The publication has no credibility—about anything, really, but about rape issues for certain. The book and the attitude it represents, however, are both real. From “America Has a Rape Problem—And Kate Harding Wants to Fix It”:

`Is that what you mean when you say in the book that “every American boy is at risk of growing up to become a rapist”?

``When I say that, I mean that American boys are all growing up in the same rape culture, so they’re growing up with this incredible sense of entitlement to women’s bodies. Boys are taught that sex is their right – it’s on demand, basically – and that girls will resist, and their job is to overcome that resistance. Instead of teaching them about respecting girls as fellow human beings, they’re taught that girls are sexual organs.

A culture that devalues girls and women gives social cover to people who want to rape. You don’t know which boy is going to be the one who says, “I’m going to go for it.”`` `

America’s boys. Just a bunch of budding little rapists.

And I do wonder, what does the mother of the 15-year-old boy who was groomed and raped by his friend’s mother, a former NFL cheerleader who got 48 weekends of jail, think of that?

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No credibility. They need to go back to writing about bands and stuff like that. Guess if they want to double-down on asininity, they can. Just stupid of them. I predict their demise within 20 years, probably less. Good riddance.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2015-09-02 01:16

It's not men who feel entitled to women's bodies. It's women who feel entitled to men's bodies.

Women don't worry about getting consent or being charged with rape. Oh, it happens every once in a while, generally where there's a big age difference. But the average college girl on a date doesn't make sure she has his consent before they have sex. He's supposed to worry about getting her consent.

And they don't need consent to turn a man into a father. Even the government can't force a woman to become a parent--but a woman can force a man into becoming a parent.

What women really dislike is when men treat women the way women treat men.

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Submitted by el cid on Fri, 2015-09-04 13:09