Jake Vale Has it Right

In this Letter to Jake Vale Explaining Rape Culture C.J. Redwine creates some convoluted world in which rape is so frequent and common that it has its own culture.  Please.  It's not like a statistically significant number of people are raped (certainly not something like a third), and if they are (when they're not just lying about not having buyer's remorse, that is) I'm sure that in most cases it was due to some misunderstanding, and if women really think hard about it, they'll realize that THEY were the cause of the misunderstanding. Men lose the ability to control themselves and not rape when skirts reach a certain length or when they are lead on with friendly smiles.  Rape culture indeed. These women who are complaining are just oversensitive. I'm absolutely sure that if Jake Vale were to go around picking up strange men and carrying them around nothing bad would ever happen to him.

Absolutely.

The (Very) Vocal Minority

As you can see from this pictograph breakdown, it is quite easy to demonstrate that we are past all that with irrefutable logic. There might be some vociferous few who just want the spotlight on them, or who want to blow up isolated incidents into something more than they are, but as you can see, with the proper application of determined logic through the Socratic method, you can literally leave these naysayers at a loss for words.

It JUST Means Defeat

It's okay to talk about our ignorant past of ignorance as long as it is in no way applicable to the present, requires no sincere self-refection or pragmatic change in behavior and is all largely theoretical.  Because, of course, we're past all that.  This article is of course complete poppycock but I really want to talk about Brandon C. Francis's comment.  See since no one ever really gets raped anymore in the world where we're past that sort of thing, it's okay to use that word to (appropriately) call into question an article, and it in no way undermines the meaning for actual victims of rape.  If rape happened with shocking frequency or to 1 in 5 women, that would be one thing, but we're enlightened now, so it's not insulting at all.

Those Damned Abuse Victims!

Nothing gives quite so clear a picture of how past all that we are as when a 41 year old statutory rapist blames his 13 victim for tempting him, and the lawyer actually runs with it as the legal defense. I mean clearly this is not a society that has any sort of messed up pictures of men's culpability when it comes to their sexual choices.  Nope.  Past all that.