I liked the meetings run by my old head of school. He allowed about 10 seconds of digression before would he shut it down, and anyone who waffled he'd gently interject that they should get to the point. I have tried to adopt as my own model when I chair meetings.
I would say that western rape culture is just one small part of a larger, world rape culture. The rape culture may differ between countries and regions, based customs, traditions, and heritage, but they're all predicated on rape. I mean, does it really make a difference if England prefers doggy style, and japan prefers missionary? Not at all, because you're ignoring the thing that matters, the rape itself. It all goes back to when out ancestors were monkeys, raping each other in trees and bushes. Rape is literally ingrained in our species DNA due to evolution, as a way to continue the species. It formed over millions of years. Getting rid of it will take more then a few years. In this regard, I think it's important to criticize rape culture wherever it may occur.
To be fair not just us primates. Rape as a way to breed is basically everywhere in the animal kingdom. Mammals, fish, bugs, fucking birds. Ducks are basically all sex offenders. I remember reading something like over half of all insect mating isn't consensual, and more than a bit is male on male because they're not really smart enough to tell the difference.
I suppose I can't disagree with that.
I don't believe in "rape culture" just fyi, at least not as people define it to supposedly exist in countries that have laws against it and in which a quite large amount of the men in it would murder a man who's raped a woman.
If rape even exists as a concept in people's minds then a rape culture exists as well. Sure enough we have laws against rape specifically, and so some form of rape culture exists no matter what. In my mind it's more about who gets to qualify it. And by 'it' I mean all the reactions, descriptions, opinions, and politics about rape. Also I sympathize with the apathy: it's mostly a meaningless term that gets thrown around when people get emotional. If everything is rape culture then nothing is and so on.
In theory, yes, in practice this doesn't happen nearly that often. People tend to have this weird idea of a rapist as an obvious subhuman monster (preferably of one of "those" ethnicities) that attacks an innocent (whatever that means to them) woman in a back alley.
I mean flourishing democracy as long as you're part of the straight male elite. They're still not great on women, or gays, or trans, or non-Japanese. Traditional Japanese culture is one of the most Xenophobic cultures out there. They're happy to have you visit and spend money as a tourist, but don't you dare try to move there or think you're better than a walking ATM for them.
I'm not sure how you can say it doesn't exist, when it's hardwired into peoples DNA. Japan is so uniquely horrible that they have to segregate men and women on the train into separate cars, so that they can travel down the street safely. When women can barely go outside for fear of sexual assault, something has gone very wrong. Gender segregated bullet trains are the type of thing I would expect to hear about in the congo, not in a developed nation.
Is there any purpose at all in this line? "That thing you don't believe in is your fault" isn't the heavy hitting intellectual argument you think it is.
India is a developed country nowadays?
Hah, "studies"! Everyone knows that not only do women talk too much they do it at the wrong time, in the wrong tone, making the wrong face, saying the wrong things, at the wrong person, too loud or too quiet, and when you point it out they start crying.
While Gropeyo is the prime example of this, I bet if other countries had a similar rush hour in public transportation they'd have this problem too. Even here it becomes a thing every time there is some event or situation that fills the trains.
Why not? This comment shows that you're part of it too. Rape culture isn't the mostly the result of concious choices, but subliminal biases on a mass level.
Yes, India is another country with massive sexual assault cases. A nation where the victim is often blamed in the place of the perpetrator. Thank you.
It doesn't really surprise me that this is a probkem world wide. I just think that japan is uniquely awful in this regard, due to their cultures view of women. I bet someone could make a fortune on a version of uber that only caters to driving women around safely.
"Everyone who disagrees with me is the problem" is a mindset that's only going to drag you down personally.
I doubt you would want to be Japanese either given the 60, 70, 80-hour workweeks. Not to mention their school exams.
