Victim advocates applaud Craigslist rape verdict

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43. Sorry I didn't intend to disrupt...so I'm editing these posts away.

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It is clear to me that saying "men do this" or "women do that" necessarily carries an implication that the other sex/gender does not.

It also seems reasonable to me to interpret "complicit with rape culture" with basically supporting rape, or at least being okay with it. As I said if a DUer posted that anyone with a firearm is complicit in this awful "gun culture" of ours, people would reasonably conclude that poster believes gun owners are comfortable with murder.

And in that sense the OP can be critiqued for focusing a sort of blame on men as a group. The vast majority of rapists are men, but they are a small minority of us, and the PEOPLE who hold on to antiquated, patriarchal values like sexual purity and "boys will be boys" cannot be distinguished by any physical trait such as sex or race.

But, it is obvious to me this thread could have gotten along just fine without that point, and that I made that point in a manner that was rude and unnecessarily aggressive. My bad.