Because addressing rape culture cannot happen while tackling healthcare, basic services and education?
Imagine someone on the right saying their version of this: "Because addressing homosexual sodomy culture cannot happen while tackling healthcare, basic services and education?" You might ask how homosexual sodomy is a problem, trust me they think gays are fucking their little boys while tickeling satan, truly the problem of our age that needs to be tack on to healthcare and basic services and education?
Back to my point: like how sodomy is not an election wining issues for the right, rapeculture is not a wining issue for the left. Because most people are disgusted and put off your even wasting breath putting that "issue" in with the ones they actually care about.
You do realise that women's rights are closely tied to this as well, yes?
Women have rights here, nothing about rape is legal here, what fucking more rights do you want??? the right to punish a man on mere accusation, without due process? That is not equality, that is not even civilized!
For something to classify as an epidemic, say for an infectious disease, the rate has to be 15 cases for 100,000 for two consecutive weeks.
Now consider that 1 in 5 to 6 women are raped or will experience sexual assault.
Bullshit:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-1
and if you call that an epidemic then murder and theft is an epidemic, shit robbery and violent assault, far more common then rape, oh god look at that we are a grand-theft-auto-culture, seriously!
Look I had my ass pinched by girls, I have had women cop a feel of my balls without asking for my consent, i've been "sexual assaulted" I don't sit around thinking of my self as a "survivor" and using those events as a crutch for all my problems in life. If I had to choose between somehow eradicating all sexual assault and getting universal healthcare, I will take universal healthcare, heck I would even give up gun control for universal healthcare. To win elections we need to focus on issues that people care about and that we can actually do something about.
Imagine if you and a group of male friends and family. There are 6 of you sitting at a table and just imagine if at least 1 of you will be raped or sexually assaulted in any given year. You'd be fine with that? Or would you want to address the culture that would allow it to happen?
Imagine 1 out of 5 men are sodomites, pissing god off, wanting to violate little boys, god help us, let us vote republican to protected us from the sodomites homosexual pedophiles!
Look Bells your not the only side hyper-exaggerating a problem and outright making shit up.
Now, imagine being a woman, and having a man tell you that the fact that you face a higher chance of being sexually assaulted and raped than you do catching the flu when going to the supermarket and find that acceptable or something that can or should just be ignored because "it's not that big a problem".
Imagine being a man and no one, NO ONE GIVES A FUCK about how many times you been punched in the face, dropped kicked, mugged or sexual assaulted or harassed, no one cares, not even yourself because you are taught and bred not to care.
It's not about teaching boys not to rape. It's about teaching boys that women and girls, are human beings with rights that are equal to their own. It's about teaching boys and men respect for their fellow human beings.
I have already show you statistics that 85% of men know that world wide, the rest are simply unteachable scum.
Again, imagine you have a son and the risk of his being raped is 1 in 6. Would you want to address the culture that condoned behaviour that led to disrespecting boys like your son, that excused sexual assault in various forms? Or would you sell your son up shit creek because of politics?
Imagine you had a son and his chances of getting beaten up was greater then 1 out of 6, and then you tell him to "walk it off" because penis, you have bigger problems like making sure he can makes it to college and that it is affordable.
This is such a bizarre argument.
You would only feel demonised if you were a rapist or your sexually assaulted women or sexually harassed women.
... that is some clever sophistry there. Ok so how to explain this, right, do you remember how you got triggered by the world "hysteria" how you felt that was an attack on all women, now imagine you were a man and told that men are being trained to rape and treat women as inhuman flesh lights, you don't think you might get triggered? Now imagine I tell you the only reason the word "hysteria" triggers you is because your hysterical, stereotypical high estrogen fainting couch hysterical:
Which is based on a fallacy.
Do you think the fundamental human rights of women should take a back seat so that men can sexually assault and rape and sexually harass women because heaven forbid, addressing it.. something something politics and your privilege?
Do you feel demonised, EF?
Addressing it, how? how are you addressing it??? your just bitching about it, presenting no solutions, while letting other BIGGER problems slide. The republicans are about to pass a tax bill that will cause more harm then all the ass pinching in america ever will!
Is multitasking an issue for you?
It is to the electorate, yes. No one can campaign on every possible issues, be it homosexual sodomite pedophiles to rape-culture, one needs to focus on real issues first and foremost, issues that garner the largest share of the electorate, like jobs, and wages and healthcare and education.
Why do you approach the very thought of treating women as human beings worthy of their bodily rights and autonomy, as being something that somehow or other stops everything else from being addressed?
There that dishonest strawmaning
iceaura is talking about. Women have every right to bodily autonomy, and I would like those rights protected by not have republicans control the government.
Which makes you as bad as 'they' are. Because there are so many people like you in the US.
Yes this mythical moral perfection, does not matter who controls government, as long as you die being virtues.
So it's in your genes?
Which gene is that?
Or were you taught not to cry, to be a man, etc?
That like asking which gene makes men taller then women on average. Men on average don't cry, because we are bred not to, you confuse cause and effect: society is not telling boys not to cry, it telling boys to normalize, any boy that does cry excessively is less likely to breed, so be like the norm or else.
How is it homosexual are gay when society says everyone should be heterosexual? Because homosexuals are born that way!
Actually, women bred with males who would care for their offspring.
Grossly simplistic, yes women instinctively want caring fathers, they also want a man that will die for them and the children, not cower in a corner crying.
You mean hips.
And her age.
Right?
Yeah fertility, yeah, just like women prefer men with resources, strength, power, charisma: instinct. It was not the fucking romance novel industry that programmed women to like that.
Do you understand what that even means? Clearly you do not. Raising a child to be 'gender free', means that you don't tie a child down with gender specific stereotypes, in particular when it comes to toys, clothing, books and activities. It allows children to explore things that genuinely interest them, instead of having parents tell their little boy that he cannot play with a doll house or dolls because he's a boy, and telling a girl that she can't play with cars or toy guns, because she's a girl.
If you want a better example, walk into any department store, and see how toys, books, clothing, is so gender role based.
Oh so which is it now, are they born of their own preferences or is society teaching them.
Lets look at girls born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, will they play with girl toys that society tells them to, or boy toys because of elevated testosterone in utero development: the boy toys. You can raise the child any way you want, you don't need to worry about society forcing a gender on the child and thus try to raise the child gender neutral, a parenting style trying to protect a child for social cues is destine to backlash when the child enters society. It is like when Tupac was raise to respect women, then he discovered that not want women really want:
David Reimer was never given any choice. Raising children to be gender neutral, is about allowing them the right to be children, without society's constraints about their gender and their gender identity and what comes with that.
Yeah david reimer was forced by society to be a women, didn't work, so why so much care about societies constraints? Giving a girl a barbie is not going to fuck her up: if she likes barbies, then she likes barbies, high estrogen, if she does not like barbies, then she does not like barbies, high testosterone.
