Men's Group

but it's possible to miss it, when I said "The Rape Culture" I'm acknowledging doesn't benefit all men, and in fact, doesn't benefit all rapists. It doesn't really function the way the feminists say it does. And it's not predominate. However, there's still no better name for it.

It's based on a cultural belief that women's sexual choices have to be restrained beyond simply being consensual. In other words, slut shaming. It was certainly the way the boys in Steubenville justified their actions, as crime was in progress. They thought they were right enough about it to be smug and boast.

Apparently, the people getting them off the hook don't think drugging, abducting, gang raping and sodomizing this girl over a period of hours is heinous enough to ruin these boys futures over, or to soil their football program about. The times they have spoken, these adults have shown total callousness to the girl. It's also true that all of them graduated that high school and were involved in the football program. They seem to have absorbed the belief that molesting a slut is no major crime, and at worst, a bit of mischief for a good cause. I hate to say, my perception is that this belief is widespread and ingrained enough that people aiding and abetting and obstructing justice over a rape can occur anywhere in the nation.

So, it might not exactly match feminists have in mind, but if that's not a rape culture, what the hell is?