Quote:Again where are your numbers? What has happened with rape convictions in the last 20 years? Do those numbers and trends justify tarring large swathes of the population with the accusation of at least silently supporting rape?Here are some statistics and facts https://www.rainn.org/statistics - There's sources down below.
It's not as small as you think off, sometimes simply reading the comment section of a news website is terrible - The case of the porn actress who got hit by the husband (hockey player or something like that) had lots of comments saying she deserved it because she was a slut and all of that.
Quote:I think we're talking past each other, in the sense that I have no problem with the views held by most feminists, which as I noted earlier are laudable in their thrust. It's only the radicals that irk me -- those who make a cottage industry of bashing anyone who doesn't accept their claims lock, stock, and barrel.I agree with this
Quote:I like the term egalitarian as used above, and though I've never considered it as a descriptor for myself, I think I will start using it ... it describes my views succinctly and without baggage.I am an egalitarian, a pro-feminism, pro-same-sex-equality, and generally pro equality for different groups of people who did nothing wrong b sides being born like that.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
