It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria

[jollyreaper2112]

55. Don't forget, everyone has an agenda

The Puritans left Europe to seek religious freedom and yet persecuted anyone who varied from their strict interpretation of dogma. Being a victim does not mean that the victim cannot also become an abuser. Isn't that usually how it works with child abuse?

There is a rape culture in that these things are permitted to happen. If there wasn't a pedophile culture at Penn State, how else could Sandusky have been protected? If there's not a rape culture in sports programs around the country, how else would you explain the coverups? If a group of good ol' boys can lynch a black man in the south and get a sentence far different from what they'd have gotten in New England, would that not be a lynch culture?

If I were to talk to my friends about how much fun it is to fuck kids, that shit gets shut down on the spot. It ain't acceptable. If I were to talk about how much I hate jews and how Hitler had the right idea, there's immediate and significant backlash. Radioactive, not tolerated. Within my own group of friends, saying a woman deserves to be raped would get the same reaction. But that certainly isn't universal in this country. Holocaust jokes will get you in hot water but rape jokes are still fine.

That being said, the counter-reaction can be toxic. A proper and justifiable aversion to pedophilia has become a witch hunt that gets parents sent to jail for snapping pics of their babies in the tub. Trying to undo the sexually poisonous office environment we had in the Mad Men era has given us the situation where both sexes look at each other like armed camps.