burma army uses rape as a weapon of war

[Donald Ian Rankin]

20. I think you must be replying to some other post.

Or just not have bothered to read mine.

Not merely did I say "misogyny is totally unrelated to rape", I also didn't say anything that could possibly be interpreted as implying that. You just made that up out of thin air, so as to have something nasty to accuse me off.

I don't know if you noticed that among the things I listed were "more funding and training for police officers on how to handle rape victims" and "better sex education in schools" - both of which - unlike anything else in this thread - are actual specific, achievable proposal which, if implemented, would make things like Steubenville much less likely to happen. Whereas getting everyone on DU to assent to the proposition "the USA has a rape culture" wouldn't, I'm afraid, especially if you don't/cant define that term.

And I'm not "mansplaining" - a wonderful excuse for ignoring things you don't want to think about, by the way - to "the feminists on DU" - I'm one of them.

Feminism is *not* about treating women as delicate flowers who must be deferred to on account of their uteruses. And, when you use "mansplaining" as a dismissal, that *is*, *explicitly*, what you are demanding, and frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. Feminism is about treating women as sentient, rational people to whom it is worth explaining why you disagree with them.