Rape more Common than Smoking in the US

[Tsiyu]

177. A male poster above made the patriarchy comment

and yes, when you whine, pout and stomp around these threads claiming YOU are the victim, I will snark at you,

You don't care about the topic one bit. You care about derailing the topic.

I think that is sickening and sad.

You've got nothing to back up your claims. It is necessary to educate men - because obviously from the studies showing young men's horrific attitudes about rape, it's pretty well proven that all you great guys have not seemed to teach a great many of them that rape is always wrong.

We need to educate young men especially, so that they don't have any "murky" ideas and so that they feel emboldened to speak up when other men are being demeaning to others. We need to educate men on how to protect one another and women.

Saying this in no way says they are all potential criminals nor does it say they are criminal enablers.

It says that we all have a long way to go and we must use every tool in our arsenal to combat the epidemic of rape.

I am amazed at the people who think their fellow males are all stupid tools who can't learn anything, and more amazed at the ones who think all men already know it all.

I believe men are the same as women. They can use as much education as we can develop. I have a lot more faith in men than you do, obviously.

And if all men already "know the right thing to do" why is rape growing and becoming more insidious?

One in 16 college men has admitted to committing date rape and you don't think that's a big enough percentage to develop some education programs for young men? We had a poster admit to this behavior this week, and HE now knows it was wrong. Imagine if he'd had some classes back when he was a young man? Might have saved a lot of his victims a while lot of pain. But you think men are too stupid to grow up and that's an indication of your disdain for your own gender.

It is you who appears to have no confidence in men's ability to learn, and you are basically saying you're willing to live with men acting like animals because there's "nothing we can do about it."

I call bullshit.

We fight with all we've got to end rape if we REALLY CARE.