“Despite rumors that the LGBT Pride parade and other related festivities would be called off in light of the mass shooting in Orlando....”

“ Things just went too far and someone got scared”

How exactly is a woman supposed to lock up her vagina? If you don't want someone to steal your bike, you lock it to something, otherwise you were kind of asking for someone to steal it. But it's a lot more complicated with rape, because women are always "asking for it" in one way or another- by wearing the wrong…

Hello, I would like to know how to attach my bike lock to my vagina please.

One of the greatest challenges we have in society is that the voices of girls and women are not taken seriously. The frequency of rape is a sad, and yet perfect, example of the absolute dangers of not listening to women. We are all socialized that women and girls are irrational, over-reactive, and generally "crazy."…

More importantly, a lot of young men are exposed to the opposite lesson quite explicitly. I posted a reply to another commenter, but as a young lad I was told in no uncertain terms that my "role" was to pressure a woman into having sex, because her "role" was to resist just enough to make it look like she's not a…

Oh god, I'm soooo sick of the "replace rape with theft" argument. Rape and theft aren't analogous at all. "Leaving a bicycle out without a chain and lock" is NOT the same as "a woman jumping naked with a man into bed." By equating a woman — a PERSON — with a bike, you're saying she's an object that needs to be…

I don't think we should listen to this Reddit thread so we can personally prevent rape. I don't think it's up to a woman herself to prevent rape. (See: the whole point of SlutWalk, etc.) The thread is important in terms of analyzing rape culture because how can we teach people not to rape and why rape is wrong if we…

People tend to not know what rape really is- as some of the contributors (and the article) said, many of them didn't realize that what they were doing wasn't okay. For them it was a logical extension of normal desire. One can argue, "Well, they SHOULD know that it's not okay!" but the reason that rape is so prevalent…

I think we should be listening to this. Understanding this. Because then we can start showing people "THIS IS RAPE CULTURE" These ideas, these thoughts, these actions. The way these rapists are acting. And we can start to change it. It's not about them saying how hard it was to rape people. It's about saying... This…