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SixAngryGhosts's avatar

essays I remember from the third wave of feminism covering victim blaming always addressed that, culturally, we didn't tell rapists not to rape, not really, and certainly not with the same vigor we used to police the behavior of young women. as a matter of fact, there was even a lot of media that tacitly approved of boundary pushing, disregarding consent, etc etc. this part of the talk has diminished as sexual assault got drummed out of comedy, cultural conversations around consent and men changed quite a bit, and on balance the changes may have left half of the victim blaming conversation standing a bit awkwardly by itself.

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Mike Hind's avatar

The amount of throat-clearing that even someone like Stock has to do to make an obvious commonsense point is what makes our culture so stultifying and exhausting.

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