A Gentlemen’s Guide To Rape Culture

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2. Well worth taking a look at the whole thing, which is quite long.

I'll quote just once sentence:

"Don’t limit yourself to being a man. Be a mensch. Be a human being."


As a 70 year old woman, I think more and more often we are really all giving ourselves a lot of suffering by putting our gender before our humanity. The culture seems to be making it more and more difficult to live within that shared humanity. The culture seems to promote all out war.

When I was young I thought the then-current concept of "the war between the sexes" was some sort of archaic and idiotic notion that would die out with my grandparents' generation. Looking back now, it seems in much of our society the situation is even worse, more violent, more explicit, and more dangerous than it was back then. Who benefits from promoting this state of affairs?

Surely the best, the most interesting, the sexiest, part of life happens when we operate as humans interacting in our shared human reality. Rape culture is an extreme manifestation of denial of that shared reality. Again, who is benefiting from this?