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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)In places the ratio is actually 150 male children for each 100 female children. And that doesn't even factor in the extent to which female children in impoverished areas routinely receive less food than their brothers, as well as less medical care and education. It doesn't factor in that these girls are often worked much harder and are far more likely to be married off early or sold into sex slavery. It doesn't factor in that married women worldwide are one of the demographic groups with the most rapidly increasing AIDS rates--because their husbands are encouraged to be promiscuous while these women are expected to be ignorant and submissive when it comes to matters of sex.
But there is clearly no connection to patriarchal culture and rape. There is no connection between global conditions for women and conditions in the United States, where after all only 1-in-6 women is the victim of rape (and 1-in-33 men). And it is especially hateful to point out that, wonder of wonders, the vast majority of the perpetrators are male--because it isn't possible that the POINT of that observation is that there must be something cultural causing this, since no person in their right mind believes that that many men are inherent sociopaths--no, the point of such statistics is to set us up for the great holocaust of men that might come, some day, if the radical feminists that have the audacity to point out reality get their way.
The *real* problem isn't a global culture that devalues women and puts them at constant risk while denying access to basic autonomy and resources. The real problem is mean feminists making men feel bad about themselves by brokering the suggestion that maybe, just MAYBE, it often sucks to be born a woman in this world in a way that it does not suck to be a man.
Patriarchy--a silly fantasy by the fearmongers who want to attack our good and just way of life--just like global warming.