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[sabrina 1]

187. There are men who have that attitude, our entire culture is violent, so it's no wonder that

violence is not viewed as wrong. It is the way to get what you want. We have a society that promotes this attitude, not just towards rape, but in general. We want another country's resources, invade them, kill them, torture them and wave the flag while doing so.

The changes that are needed are at the very heart of how this society sees itself. We view violence as strength eg, when nothing could be further from the truth. Violence is a sign of extreme weakness. But so long as society applauds violence the way we do, just asking 'men' not to rape is simply ignoring the root causes of the violence in this country.

Rape is a weapon of war, one of the oldest and most devastating to a society. And this country seems to be always at war, so why should we be surprised when war mongers see nothing wrong with using one of the oldest weapons of war against women?

When this administration chose to 'move forward' from the War Crimes of the Bush administration, they said to the women of Iraq and Afganistan who were brutally raped and tortured with the approval of the US Government under Bush, 'rape is okay by us, deal with it'.

We know our elected officials viewed the horrific video evidence of rape and torture and sodomy in US detention centers. There is no way to say we did not know about these crimes, because the awful proof was there. But not a thing, not even an apology to those victims has been forthcoming. And worse, when other countries decided to do the job our government failed to do, this administration intervened to protect the criminals.

So, until we the people are willing to stand up against the culture that is breeding these attitudes, there is no point in whining about it. If on the one hand we excuse our own party when they protect war criminals, but on the other rail against violence against women, we are not being consistent and won't be taken seriously, by anyone.