Because those are all based on the idea that that is the most common circumstance for rape when it's far more likely to happen to a stone-cold sober woman who's in the presence of someone she knows. Rape culture is found in how we've implicitly so given up on policing rapists' behavior that we'll make rape prevention…

Eh, I'm sure I'll get those likes eventually once Dead Breitbart or somebody tweets a link.

Having to strategize about rape avoidance before going off to college is not how things should be. It's horrifying that that talk has to be had. That's all I meant.

Meh, it's Friday.

Read Chrissie Hynde's quote. She's not just saying "don't dress this way to avoid getting raped," she's saying "if you dress this way and are raped, the hell with you."

Once again, these are terms referring to people, not terms referring to phenomena. And the fact that numerous advances in both groups' civil rights were made while those terms were still common kind of undercuts the "the use of this term is holding back progress" thing.

Now, the necessity of figuring these things out because of the world we live in? That is definitely rape culture.

Not sure what you're going for; if you're saying that changing racial attitudes have led to the term "Negro" falling out of social acceptability, that's not much of an analogy, considering that shift was largely the result of black people themselves beginning to call themselves something else.

What the hell would you prefer they say, "Finding out a fellow leftist was a creep opened my eyes to the fact that my ideology supports this behavior"?

Other things that won't help to change things one bit: making terminology your bone of contention rather than the phenomena they refer to.

The human tendency to expect better of people who share their belief
systems makes all belief systems the perfect cover for being horrible
This is why this comment section rules. Not just because it's the only non-horrifying comment section you'll find for a review of this book but because it gives us this kind of…

He just upvoted himself so yeah, that'll do it.

Right, they asked you the questions, but did whether or not it was treated as a crime at all hinge on your answers?

Does law enforcement, though? Because I'm pretty sure they tend to prioritize poor-person-on-rich-person-from-a-better-neighborhood crime.

On the plus side, it really, really confuses conservatives when they encounter someone who realizes that. I've encountered trolls who were baffled by my ready disavowal of San Francisco's secretary-groping Democratic then-mayor, who they'd apparently come to believe was some sort of sacred cow on the left.

"Leveraging sensitivity." Jesus. Great way of putting it. I don't like to casually apply labels like this but what a straight-up evil way to operate.

Not sure if sarcastic but I can't remember the last time i heard "blame America first" used unironically so I'm leaning yes.

Oh man, men who present as leftist or artsy or just generally open-minded can be even worse than frat bros or Duggar types about that when the mask comes off, because they have this sense of entitlement about how they're progressive and feminist so they CAN'T have done anything wrong.

Only because you used the Free Speech Space.

His research on Emma Sulkowicz was extensive enough to know she's definitely a liar but not enough to spell her name right.