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In reply to the discussion: Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture) [View all]sigmasix
(794 posts)Good Men should learn to recognize these sorts of miscreants; you meet them all the time- they are the guys that embarrass you by belittling women that refuse to show interest in them as a sexually interesting man. It might be your buddy, or it might be your uncle- but we still owe it to ourselves and the women in our lives to let these types of men know that real men do not tolerate them and thier childish sexually demeaning attitude towards women.
These are the guys that talk and act is if women are sexual objects- not thinking, intelligent individuals with a legitimate right to be treated equally. I have met plenty of guys that see drunken or otherwise messed-up women as fair sexual game- even when they are unconcious! Many men are familiar with guys that see powerful women as a threat to thier masculinity, so they make remarks and jokes about the individual women that suggest they are only important because of thier vagina, or worse; the old ploy of demeaning them by claiming that the man refused past sexual entreaties from the woman.
Example: "I could have done that lawyer bitch, but I wouldn't stick my dick in her for money!"
If good men punish these characters by withdrawing all forms of friendship and charity to these individuals, we would see a lowering of rape incidents and a marked increase in our collective liberties and women's saftey.
I try to do my part as much as possible by redirecting older family members towards other facts while using moral appeals that undermine the claims of masculinity from men that give tacit approval for these behaviors by saying nothing to discourage the misogonistic attacker.
Whether you believe there is a rape culture or not makes no difference to the truth- the culture of rape is alive and well amongst closed groups of angry men, and the sooner we all become aware of it, the sooner we can stop it.