Western culture? Rape is against our culture. That's why it's a punishable offense.
Before I respond to everything else, one in six. Just sayin'.
I... don't get what you're saying. Are you saying because it's so common, it is part of our culture? Because if so, that's fucking ridiculous. Rape is completely socially unacceptable, nobody advocates it except rapists.
Not even all rapists. Especially if the urge to rape was caused by a mental condition, the culprit may feel extremely remorseful - and for a reason, as rape is one of the most severe crimes in our culture.
But I get your point. While I'm not sure if one in six is the valid number, it's probably so because of failed social policy, not because rape is culturally acceptable.
I... don't get what you're saying. Are you saying because it's so common, it is part of our culture? Because if so, that's fucking ridiculous. Rape is completely socially unacceptable, nobody advocates it except rapists.
If not I don't get why you brought it up.
The point is if rape was completely unacceptable then there wouldn't be those statistics, there would only be scattered cases of rape quickly cracked down upon because the only ones who would rape would be those who were truly sick and unable to stop themselves or unable to care.
You can't force culture to change, I'm afraid. Rape is already considered to be among the worst crimes there is. The reasons people do it are manifold, but very few cases in Western cultures have to do with it being acceptable. Culturally acceptable rapes may occur within certain sub-cultures, such as corrective rape to "cure" homosexuals, but I haven't heard anyone outside those subcultures accept them.
Also, as far as I know United States registers all sex offenders. By
statistics I found the amount of sex offenders is a bit under 400 000, which is a bit over a single per mil of US population. Not nearly enough to brand all males as rapists. Also,
about 60% of the male survivors sampled report at least one of their perpetrators to be female.
So, I have a recommendation and a request.
Be careful.Don't discriminate.However, the entire rape discussion is an uninteresting spin-off in my opinion, because I think everybody agrees that rape is condemnable and therefore shouldn't require much discussion. I was trying to find out why female-on-male hate speech is tolerated more than male-on-female hate speech. If someone has a decent answer, let's hear it.