Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture)

[TeamsterDem]

114. Uh, saying I haven't hung around with rapists is hardly giving an impression of prudishness

That you would take it that way is of course your problem, not mine. I never said I was free of sin and had never done anything wrong. I simply said I'd never raped anyone and that I'd never heard a confession thereof. That you'd read "squeaky clean" into that suggests you're reading what you want to read but not exactly what's written.

"little bad things - casual use of words ... should be questioned and held in check." Boy, I couldn't have said it better myself. That of course would apply to offensive stereotypes about whole genders, too, seeing as stereotypes are collections of words which taken in context or sum offend people. But I guess some words are okay, others are not, it all depends on whether or not you agree with what level of offense should be inferred? Or how do we measure which words are offensive and thus taboo?

Look, any statement which demeans an entire gender is a slur and thus should be unacceptable in society. You can bring up my own past all you like but it would ever change that simple fact. You know it, I know it, and everyone in this thread knows it as well. They're just mad that they got called out on stereotyping a group and don't have the integrity to admit that it wasn't the best way to phrase it. It's really a simple admission. Had it been made sooner I would've even sympathized with the OP because everyone has misspoken at one time or another. But this incessant defense of the indefensible is as preposterous as preposterous gets, I'm afraid. And it serves only to point out that for some equality doesn't actually mean equality, it instead means some other thing wherein one side is free to stereotype the other and that's okay. Well, it's not okay, nor is it defensible, much as you and others might try.