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[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. Exactly AAO!! You are exactly on point.

99% of you guys DON'T RAPE people.

You're thinking of yourself and all the men you've ever known. Since we tend to hang with people like ourselves, it'd be pretty likely that you'd have always been around men like you, who don't act out aggression against women!

First thing I want to say is, please remember, there are an awful lot of people you don't hang with and who don't hang out here on DU who DO act out male aggression against women. Like teabag mentality, rageful personalities, for example.

Second thing I want to affirm in what you said: YES PLEASE can we concentrate on catching and appropriately punishing those FUCKS?????

The problem is that Brotherhood I mentioned. It exists at high levels as well as among working class, middle class (if such a thing still exists) ordinary people.

That Brotherhood at high levels and low levels has always covered up, or just plain disbelieved women---because they are women. Even if the evidence is blatant, the danger of cover up at high levels is clear in too many cases to count---

For example: The chain of authority that covered up in this, the LaVenna Johnson case.

For example: The chain of authority that covered up the Steubenville rape.

For example: The case of the girl in India that we are JUST hearing about here of the girl who was gang raped twice and burned alive….the chain of authority in India outright stole the body and has been covering up since October (I think Oct.)

What I am asking is that we--You and I, right here, right now, talking to each other on DU-- realize that we are both talking about the same people that NEED to get what they deserve, but HAVE NOT BEEN. For centuries.

Whether loudly or more quietly amongst ourselves, what we the majority of women here have been talking about, here and everywhere is that the buddy-pal connections that work together to protect THOSE 1% (or whatever the fairly small percentage is of men who DO act hostile towards women) needs to be concentrated on!!!!

Can we agree on this? I think we are actually thinking of the same end point.