I don't say "shut up", I say "it's a perfectly fine thing to worry about, just make sure you don't a) get blinded by the sheepish spirit of being hip and b) don't forget other concerns such as the love for violence in your country".

"Every woman has a 1 in 4 chance of being raped"
In the US. More in some countries, less in others. Let's keep the dumbed down statistics for the tabloids.
And what's the chance of being murdered? My point here isn't that rape ISN'T bad or that it DOESN'T happen, my point is "rape culture" IS a hip subject. Rape has…

Yeah right. There are hundreds of comments and articles on rape culture. What percentage is actually written by people who were affected by rape?

Because "murder culture" is not the hip term of the moment