We need to talk about misogyny

[ConservativeDemocrat]

81. I think the big fight is to stop the normalization of violence...

And that's what I see missing with the focus on this psychopath. Psychopaths are rare. And they'll always find some excuse. For example, Ted Kaczynski (the unibomber) was murdering for an ideology that is remarkably similar to some held by the more extremist D.U.ers, but I don't therefore go trying to claim everyone who holds such an ideology is a murderer.

To me, the real problem is when a culture starts convincing non-psychopathic men to engage in this sort of behavior, and furthermore, for women to just accept it. We know, for instance, that all rapes are committed by just 6% of men. However, over 30% of women are sexually assaulted at least some time in their lives. So how are these two statistics reconciled? By realizing that, on average, a rapist victimizes over five women before something is done (or he stops on his own).

What we need to do, therefore, as a society is to: 1) Reduce the social consequence of making a rape accusation, and 2) Encourage more women to do so.

And this is where it gets tough. From what I've read, much of the problem seems to stem from the issue that for a woman to make a rape accusation, she has to first admit to herself she's been raped. And this is difficult to do. (You see this effect, by the way, in many relationship-advice forums - a woman will start an OP complaining about a "bad date", but the scenario she describes isn't a date at all, it's flat out date-rape.) I'm almost to the idea that what we need to do is to just rename the crime to "Failure to Receive Explicitly Articulated Consent" to remove the stigma, and tell the victims that if she didn't say yes, she needs to make an accusation.

It's even harder for male rape victims.

Again, I have a bias for actual action. I'd like to see society move forward. Twitter Activism doesn't strike me as likely to change anything. But I do know a couple of state legislators, so I can run something past them. See what they think.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

p.s. I didn't think much of Dworkin when I was young. Now I see her as more someone with PTSD over brutalities she'd suffered from her husband, and can see how she'd generalize this to all men.