USC Fratboy Email Calls Women “Targets;” Declares “Giving Them A Name Is Pointless”

[mistertrickster]

59. What I posted was entirely factual.

The conclusion you drew was entirely your own.

My point is that if we really lived in a "rape culture," rape wouldn't even be a crime. Take for instance, lynching blacks before Civil Rights--racism was so ingrained that lynching wasn't even prosecuted. When the mutilated body of Emmett Till washed up in Mississippi in 1955, the jury found the sadistic killers "not guilty." Medgar Evers was shot in the back and his cowardly murderer was widely known, and not brought to trial until thirty years later. The church bombing in Birmingham that killed four little girls was never solved and was never really investigated.

Rape is illegal, ethically unacceptable and morally indefensible. No one makes light of it except a tiny benighted minority.

According to this website http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/sexoff/sexoff.html, "On a given day about 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault are under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies. About 60% of these sex offenders are under conditional supervision in the community."

This sounds to me like sex crimes are taken very seriously by our society . . . not at all as though we live in a "rape culture."

Using a sketchy e-mail without provenance and touting it on the internet as an example of "what men generally and what frat boys specifically think about women" is just not good science.

But it does whip up the hysteria here on old DU . . .