Some good news about rape--There is much less of it these days.

[Threedifferentones]

61. Ya, a lot of us do go around saying "see, see" without knowing what we are talking about.

And a lot of us never really learned to punctuate, and so are stuck writing in a stream-of-consciousness style that reads more like a work of art and less like clear prose with a logical point.

And sometimes these two groups overlap, so that a person's posts are not only opaque and difficult to read, but ultimately mistaken in some of their conclusions.

Personally, I can think critically enough to see that two things which at first appear contradictory and mutually exclusive are in fact both true.

There are horrible examples of our old patriarchal system in the news every day. Anyone who googles Steubenville can see that plenty of males AND females are willing to ignore rape victims. Plenty of fucked up PEOPLE are ready to blame the victim and call her a slut.

But, this has been true for thousands of years, and the idea that no progress has been made in recognizing and changing these attitudes is ridiculous. It seems certain that some of the Anonymous people who first brought that case to light are male. Will you give them any credit for pursuing justice? I think they deserve big cudos for thwarting the Prosecuting Attorney's attempt to hush up the accusations against HER son.

It seems likely to me that as these attitudes are exposed as wrong, harmful and basically evil, we will see a decline in rape. Maybe that is just wishful thinking on my part, but will you really blame me if it turns out I was just wanted to believe rape is in decline?

What if it turns out these numbers are basically accurate? Then it will seem that you were engaged in the wishful thinking. You wanted to believe that rape is a bad as ever in America. Yikes.

Framing the study in the OP as some men's attempt to minimize the problem of rape is untrue. Because of that it is unhelpful and obviously inflammatory. Will this fact ever make it through your stream?