Melania Trump says Sexual Assault victims shouldn't report unless they have evidence

[vulcanlogician]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/politics/...index.html

In case you were feeling sorry for the fifty cent whore.  She comes out and says that sexual assault victims should't report unless they have evidence.  I'm sure the conservatives on this board will applaud her 'courage' for stating such a stupid fucking thing.  Telling victims they aren't victims without evidence is such an appalling thing to say.  This is where we get rape culture from.

I don't see what you claim her saying in the article linked.  Is this an accurate quote?  

Also, I don't believe that there is a "rape culture" running rampant in the country.

"Rape culture" is a term I don't much like. But the term does refer to a real cultural phenomenon. There is a psychological tendency in humans to want to "deny" the reality of rape when confronted with it it. To recognize that there are such devious and evil individuals among us who are capable of forcing another person to perform sexual acts is something most people are hard-wired not to accept. Notice the bolded "among us"-- no one has a problem thinking that these heinous individuals exist "out there." Sure some thug on the street might be out there raping women. But "not the college dean" and "not our beloved pastor" and "not [insert name here] who we've all known and loved for years." 

When rape happens people often blame the victim as a knee jerk response. Why? People have a hard time handling this shit. But this shit happens. When multiple people have a hard time handling this shit, it happens on a social level. And when something regularly happens on a social level, it could be said to happen on a cultural level. So "rape culture" has become sort of a loaded term, but it is not entirely inaccurate. There is even more to it than what I've said here, but hopefully what I've said in this post is enough to help you see where people are coming from when they use the term.