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b_b  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rape Is Caused by Rapists, Not by Underage Drinking

I'm having a hard time swallowing this. I'm curious as to whether all the people who shared this actually read it, or if it was shared because it has a provocative and agreeable title. I actually feel dumber for having read it. When parents, coaches, teachers or anyone else who cares about you gives you advice on how to keep yourself out of dangerous situations, you should listen to the advice and evaluate it as good or bad based on your knowledge and experience, as well as theirs. If I told my sister not to walk around the street late at night in my neighborhood, because robberies happen, would that be misogynistic, since it is robbers and not women who walk around late at night alone who are responsible for robberies? Rape is obviously among the most serious of crimes, and every rapist deserves to be punished to full extent of the law. Does that mean that certain situations don't exist in which conditions of rape aren't more prevalent? What world does this lady live in where boys aren't told not to rape? Rape can be a hard crime to prove if it's the word of one against another, but I remember being in middle school classes in 1993 where they were lecturing all of us about "no means no". I doubt it has gotten lighter since then. My guess is this lady thought of a cool title then tried to piecemeal a piece of shit article around it to sound profound. It isn't.