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

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252. Thank you again, Redqueen, for this excellent

and extremely important OP.

I thanked you before, way up in the thread, but some of the posts in this thread since then have been so infuriatingly obtuse and mean-spirited that I wanted to say again how much I appreciate the way you put yourself out there, time and again, sharing the realities of rape and sexual violence, and posting ways ALL of us can and should strive to confront and end them.

Rape culture is real. It permeates nearly every aspect of our larger culture, enabling and sometimes even condoning the most horrific abuses of women, children, and men. As much as some of us might want to deny it, as much as some of those who are complicit try to define themselves out of their own responsibility, we are all adrift in this culture, and all of us are accountable for how (even IF) we choose to respond.

And so I just wanted to post again to say how much I appreciate what you do for DU, and to give a shout out to you and to seabeyond and to all the good feminists here who put up with so much BS, just trying to get a point across.

Whenever I come to DU I always check out everything you post. In fact, it's one of the main reasons I keep returning.

Best wishes.