Comments by "cchris874" (@cchris874) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

Rape culture means "the prevailing attitude" that rape is normal. "there are people out there like him who don't get it" does not show we live in a rape culture. That's what gets me. There are a thousand and one attitudes out there about rape. Some of them conform to the theme of rape culture, while many others are robustly "anti-rape culture." Unless you do a scientific tally, you can't just provide a few case studies and say "there's the proof." Either show that "rape culture" is the dominant culture. Or change the f---ng definition of rape culture to something less ambiguous, without the pretentious wording like "normative," or be more modest and less arrogant. Over-the-top formulations cooked up by academic feminism are easily discernible by these extravagant features. If you speak about rape culture, you must include the Brock Turner case, which caused a national outrage; or this man himself, who went to jail for 9 years. Is that supposed to be rape culture? This is the problem with this sanctimonious alarmist terminology. It serves to confuse people, since most people see rape as extreme, and not normal. It insults our intelligence. And that cannot be a good thing.
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Sorry, this video proves nothing about rape culture. You cannot do social commentary on the basis of one human being.
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@bramsteenhoek2674 I agree rape culture exists. I think it's a question of degree though. A more controversial claim is that "the America IS a rape culture." On the same basis I could claim the US is an anti-rape culture. There are strong prohibitions against rape too. One interesting aspect of the "Mattress Girl" case was how, even after being exonerated, the accused said that he was shunned wherever he went on campus. Apparently no one likes to hang out with a perceive rapist. Also instructive to me was the Stanford rape case. Here we saw both rape culture and a fierce anti-rape culture clashing with reach other. But as usual, only the rape culture part was hilighted by many feminists. So my main gripe with the rape culture paradigm is that it's always a one-way affair You are either fully onboard, or you yourself are part of the problem. This imbalanced perspective is yet another reason IMO why so many reject the term "rape culture." cheers
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@bramsteenhoek2674 Do you mean he thought he was not really committing rape?
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@bramsteenhoek2674 That's very interesting because on the one hand, this should be a clear cut case of rape: "no" before, and "no" during. On the other hand, if he really didn't think it was rape, does that call for some small level of sympathy? But my guess is this is more likely not so innocent, and an example of rape culture. Interviews with college age men revealed that between 5 and 20%, as I recall, thought that in situations like this, the victim has essentially entered a contract, and therefore the perpetrator has the right to use force. Therefore, in their mind, it's not rape. Now I have no idea how someone is capable of so contorting basic common sense. Coming from a different angle are those who say that when a college woman goes to a frat party, gets drunk, and you know the rest.....that she has to "take some responsibility for what happened." The "kind" interpretation of that is, they are merely pointing out that younger college women are often naive about the nature of these situations. Fine. But where it becomes a kind of rape culture is taking that literally. The best rebuttal I have is to point out that if taken literally, the victim should also spend some time in jail too. I think once you point out the absurdity, the argument becomes self-evidently invalid.
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