Feminist Myths: Rape Culture

I’m sure we’ve all heard about rape culture from Feminists before. It’s a term that originally referred to the frequency and trivialization of rape within the prison system. But Feminists have turned it into their own personal tool. They believe that we, in Western society, live in a culture which normalizes, encourages, and trivializes the rape of women. The hard truth is that we simply don’t.
Many Feminists like to quote the false statistic of “1 in 4 women are raped” (or 1 in 5, 1 in 3, 1 in 6, it seems to change quite often). The facts about this “statistic” are that, on top of being wildly over inflated, it comes from a study conducted by a Feminist by the name of Mary Koss, and was first published in a tabloid magazine by the name of “Ms. Magazine”.
Mary Koss herself has previously admitted that 73% of the women she classified as rape victims, did not believe they had been raped. 43% of the women she classified as victims had even gone on to date their “attackers”. Stockholm Syndrome can’t account for percentages that high. If you take the women who don’t believe they were raped out of the equation, the statistic comes down to about 1 in 16 women, or about 6.25%. This is relatively close to the rate of prison rape, which is 1 in 20 or 5%.
It would seem that it is not society that is trivializing rape, but rather that it is Feminists themselves. When you constantly use a statistic which purposefully over-represents the number of rape victims, you are broadening the definition of rape to include things that are not, in fact, rape.
There’s also the ever infamous “Don’t be that guy” poster campaign. There are 2 problems with this campaign and its message. One, is that it completely ignores that women commit rape as well (something I’ll address in a later post). The second, is that it employs the “teach men not to rape” tactic, which implies that the natural state of a man, is that of a rapist. Not only is this a completely insulting message, it is also horribly wrong. Men don’t need to be told rape is wrong. We know that. We don’t go around our whole lives thinking “Rape is so great!” until somebody tells us otherwise. Please, just stop spreading this message. Not only is it completely ridiculous, it is also very very hateful.
Now onto the concept of “victim blaming”. I’d like to point out the difference between “victim blaming” and “preventative measures”.
Victim Blaming: “She was dressed like a slut, she deserved to get raped!”
Preventative Measures: “You should put on a jacket and hide a weapon inside it before you go out, just in case somebody tries to attack you.”
It is not victim blaming to recommend you learn the proper way to defend yourself against criminals. We do this for literally EVERY other crime. You can’t “teach rapists not to rape”, because rapists do not care about feelings, and they don’t care about right and wrong.
We live in a society which tries to help women protect themselves against rape. We live in a society where 4 women can falsely accuse a taxi driver of rape over a $13 cab fare, and NOT get in trouble for it. I feel like Feminists want society to simply take the word of the victim. The problem with this, is that it would mean completely abandoning the premise of “Innocent until proven guilty” that is supposed to be the backbone of our legal system. You cannot simply convict one person on the word of another. If you could, it’d be like the Salem Witch Trials all over again.
If you want an example of a rape culture, please, look to the Middle East where women are literally being executed because they were raped. That is rape culture, and that is not our society.

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