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CyricZ posted...

nemu posted...

Rape culture is the same kind of thing as white privilege. It's a total mischaracterization on how the world works, turning everyone and everything into aggressors and victims. They need buzzwords to throw around at every issue instead of taking a nuanced look and actively trying to fix things.

If we want to talk mischaracterization...

I think a lot of reasons these arguments fail early is because people who don't want to believe these aspects of society exist will, instead of trying to understand the rationale of those who coined the terms, will instead define the terms for themselves and use that as a starting point for the argument against them.

Or to put it another way, "rape culture" is not defined as "a culture that promotes/condones rape", and beginning an argument from that point is pretty doggone disingenuous.

The definition will entirely depend on who you're talking to for sure, but pretty much anyone who is going to use it is the entitled gender studies graduate type. There may be people and academics who try to utilize it in a different context, but it's drowned out.

But that does not remove the larger problem of such discourse. Those kinds of terms create a victim complex, boiling it down to the idea that society is severely flawed and "toxic." They are used in such a way not to fix anything, but to blame things. "Things are like this because of 'buzzword.'"