Rape Culture: 3 Reasons Most Men Are to Blame For Misogyny

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16. Rape in my opinion is a kind of accepted pathology

The evolutionary psychology view that's its adaptive has been well criticized, and thought not to have enough evidence to support such a claim.

Personally, I don't believe men are 'wired' to rape. They are taught through socialized pathology. Feminists who think like myself call this socialized pathology patriarchy.

Your original comment about Gay men I found inappropriate because gay men suffer from rape as do straight men, just not in the same numbers as women do. Which could be an argument against the evolutionary psychology rape-as-adaptive proponents.

One of the problems with looking at something as pathological as rape and saying 'its about procreation' is that it leaves out far too many factors; once evolutionary theorists go down that road it can be used to justify things like infanticide as 'adaptive' as well. Or thievery. Or murder. Or cannibalism. Human beings are both simple and complex, and proving unacceptable or pathological behavior having evolutionary roots is problematic at best. Especially human sexuality, which we are finding more and more that gendered roles are social constructs.

In any case, the rape situation of the here and now, it doesn't matter. Most men aren't rapists. What the article is talking about is complicity of male behavior in rape culture.