Pornography, especially violent variants, furthers rape culture...

[KitSileya]

25. Yeah, because 1 out of 33 men, and 1 out of 6 women being sexually assaulted isn't rape culture

A society where 1 out of 10 teenage girls report being pressured to have sex isn't rape culture. Where rape is considered a compliment isn't rape culture. (As many a feminist have been told - "You're too fat/ugly to rape!&quot Where being raped is an added deterrent to crime - prison rape is considered additional, justified punishment - isn't rape culture. Where trying to do something about rape is prejudicial against men, even tho men are 99% of the rapists, isn't rape culture. Where women are being told to be careful about what they wear, how much they drink, where they go, because men cannot control themselves, isn't rape culture. Where women are 9 times more likely to be raped by someone they know than a stranger isn't rape culture. Where women are tasked with the burden of rape prevention, of taking self defense classes and not walking alone out in the dark and be more aware because telling men not to rape is unjust to men isn't rape culture. Elected politicians talking about legitimate rape, and rapist musicians and athletes and directors are being lauded and victims being hounded and harassed to the (literal) death and women speaking out about misogyny and receiving rape and death threats and men pasting their girlfriends heads on nude models and sending the photoshop jobs to websites and their employers and where women cannot walk past a construction site without being harassed and where a guy gets 1 year or no time in prison for raping underage girls isn't rape culture.

You know what? Being raped is just as bad whether you're in Congo or in Connecticut. The fear of rape might be easier to hide in Connecticut than in Congo, but that doesn't mean it isn't there for a great number of us. We just have to go on some of the threads here at DU to read the posts of plenty of DUers that get their rocks off by watching women being raped...oh, sorry, seemingly being raped, because of course as long as there's a disclaimer at the start of the vid it's just pretend, natch. All women don't have to be raped for them to live in a rape culture - there just have to be a constant threat of it. And that constant threat benefit men so much they are very loath to admit it exists, because then they would have to examine their privilege, and they don't like to do that. Better to keep those pesky feminists down by dismissing them out of hand, right?