and generally contending that anything we do about that is going to be bad.
No, there are good things to do about it, and they fit into these categories: 1. Focusing on the crime itself, and saving our scorn and punishment for those individuals who commit it and enable it. 2. Undermining cultural gender essentialism at every opportunity. Not feeding it.
Too often the question is reduced to "What is it inherent in men that makes them more likely to rape?" which by its starting assumption throws out a lot of answers. I believe that this very assumption and its repetition throughout culture is one of the underpinnings of why, and I am addressing it. Dissatisfied with the lack of first cause, you can instead follow it chicken-and-egg back to the Stone Age, but the answers you find there are not going to offer a solution to today's problems.
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Date: 2009-08-19 01:17 am (UTC)No, there are good things to do about it, and they fit into these categories:
1. Focusing on the crime itself, and saving our scorn and punishment for those individuals who commit it and enable it.
2. Undermining cultural gender essentialism at every opportunity. Not feeding it.
Too often the question is reduced to "What is it inherent in men that makes them more likely to rape?" which by its starting assumption throws out a lot of answers. I believe that this very assumption and its repetition throughout culture is one of the underpinnings of why, and I am addressing it. Dissatisfied with the lack of first cause, you can instead follow it chicken-and-egg back to the Stone Age, but the answers you find there are not going to offer a solution to today's problems.