Why is DU in a gender war anyway?

[Major Nikon]

221. Illegal discrimination has to do with civil rights

Civil rights and privilege are two different things.

There's also countless ways men are disadvantaged. Both men and women are privileged in different ways. At best it's a wash. White privilege absolutely does exist. There are very few ways anyone has an advantage for being non-white.

Rape culture is a group of societal attitudes that facilitates rape:

I get this part about "rape culture" and you are absolutely correct that certain attitudes most certainly do facilitate rape. However, as I mentioned different people have different ideas about exactly what that entails. With no agreed upon definition or quantifiable standards the term becomes meaningless.

From wiki:

Although the concept of rape culture is used in feminist academia,[8] there is disagreement over what defines a rape culture and to what degree a given society meets the criteria to be considered a rape culture.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture

So the term has value in academia so long as someone is clearly defining what they mean by that term. Certainly some aspects of it go without saying. Promoting the idea that a woman can't be raped inside marriage. Victim blaming. Preventing people from reporting rape in prison by threats of violence. However, some lump everything they don't like into "rape culture" without any demonstrable evidence that it's true. Also from wiki:

Pornography has also been commonly targeted as a contributor to rape culture because it is said to contribute to larger patterns of oppression. Feminists frequently link rape culture to the widespread distribution of pornography, which is seen as an expression of a rape culture that objectifies women, reducing the female body to a commodity.

Now maybe this is true and maybe it isn't, but at best it's a poorly supported hypothesis. When porn is up exponentially and rape and violence against women is down significantly, the hypothesis has a serious problem with demonstrating cause and effect. Then you have the body of evidence that rejects this notion and even suggests an inverse relationship exists. But if you try to have a discussion with someone who has already made up their mind about what "rape culture" means, you are greeted with accusations of rape apologia. As I alluded to, many just use the term to defame anyone who dares to disagree with them. Whether they realize it or not this simply cheapens the whole idea and detracts from any value the term might have.

This doesn't mean all men are rapists, or that men aren't victims of rape. It includes that as well, but the statistics just show women are far more likely to be the victims.

Actually not all statistics show that.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/us-more-men-raped-than-women

Prison rape is arguably the easiest part of the "rape culture" dynamic to solve because by definition you have a captive perpetrator set. Yet if you dare mention anything about this aspect of the problem you are branded as quoting "MRA stats" as if rape is somehow a zero sum game where the rape of men and the rape of women can't be addressed simultaneously.