Basically, that part of the meme says: don't tell women they shouldn't get raped, tell men they shouldn't rape. Yes, it generalizes, but all women are potential victims of rape, and - please read this with due care and attention - all men are potential rapists. In the sense that if you are walking home at night and walking about ten feet behind a woman you don't know, from her perspective, you could be a rapist. If you're alone on the top deck of a bus with a women, for her, you could be a rapist. So in a sense, every man is a potential rapist for the majority of women. And that's horrible! If all the men who believed rape was wrong did go about saying 'rape is horrible, it's a violation, I want everyone to know this' if they did say it to their sons and godsons and friends, then maybe it would sink in. Because it's easy to say 'my sons would not rape'. How many people have said that, compared to those who have said 'well actually, I did think he was a rapist type'. 80,000 women a year are raped. Turn that around, 80,000 men rape a year. (Yes, some men commit more than one rape. They're loose figures.) Odds are, you do know, somewhere, casually, someone who has raped. You almost certainly know someone who's been raped.
I'd say avoiding hypothermia is a separate issue, yeah. ;)
Yes, it generalizes, but all women are potential victims of rape, and - please read this with due care and attention - all men are potential rapists. In the sense that if you are walking home at night and walking about ten feet behind a woman you don't know, from her perspective, you could be a rapist. If you're alone on the top deck of a bus with a women, for her, you could be a rapist.
So in a sense, every man is a potential rapist for the majority of women.
And that's horrible! If all the men who believed rape was wrong did go about saying 'rape is horrible, it's a violation, I want everyone to know this' if they did say it to their sons and godsons and friends, then maybe it would sink in.
Because it's easy to say 'my sons would not rape'. How many people have said that, compared to those who have said 'well actually, I did think he was a rapist type'. 80,000 women a year are raped. Turn that around, 80,000 men rape a year. (Yes, some men commit more than one rape. They're loose figures.) Odds are, you do know, somewhere, casually, someone who has raped. You almost certainly know someone who's been raped.
I'd say avoiding hypothermia is a separate issue, yeah. ;)
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