6'4" 250 lb. Man Rapes Three-year-old Daughter, Judge rules for HIS safety. No rape culture here!

[Jackpine Radical]

88. Yes, I agree. People are confusing the Rape Culture with

the Rich Get Away With Anything culture.

Psychologically, there are considerable differences between those who molest children and those who rape adults. There are also considerable differences in how the public--actually, portions of the public--react to the two types of offense. Even rape culture apologists are generally repelled by child molesters, while that same group minimizes the significance, frequency, and/or moral repugnance of adult rape.

And incidentally, there is a large body of literature showing that adult rapists tend to show the same sort of age-crime rate as that of general violent criminals (and psychologically very much tend to resemble "ordinary" violent criminals), meaning (for one thing) that their rates of recidivism peak in the 20's & early 30's, and are really pretty low after about age 45. Child molester, on the other hand, tend not to resemble general violent criminals very much, tend to at least appear more prosocial in other aspects of their lives, and tend to remain at risk of recidivating with new sex offenses for a longer portion of their lives.

The diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder is the most common one among rapists, while Pedophilia is most common among child molesters with prepubescent victims (i.e. those in stages of development below Tannner Stage 3).

I therefore would say that this DuPont legal outcome is the result of the Worship the Rich culture, not the Rape Culture. This conclusion does not mean that I dismiss the Rape Culture, which, as I indicated above, I would define as a cultural minimization of the significance, frequency, and/or moral repugnance of adult rape.

The judge was right about one thing: He would not fare well in prison. That fact, however, should not prevent his being sent there, and I would further bet that it would not be a consideration if he were poor.