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Originally Posted by rubecube
I mean some probably do but it's not common, but my point was that people brag about acts that essentially constitute sexual assault because we as a culture are accepting of these acts when they're put in certain terms, and that needs to change.
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We as a culture? When I hear that, it implies that other cultures are different, better. So name them. And if this isn't confined to our culture, maybe we should recognize it as a crime pervasive in our
species.
This is what I'm driving at. If the levels of sexual predation in modern North America are peculiarly high, then let's see some empirical evidence proving it. And if they aren't - and I've seen convincing data that this is one of the safest times and places to be a women in history - then maybe we need to recognize that. Not to absolve predators and their crimes, but to recognize what we've done right in the last 60 years to protect victims and make the powerful accountable. And to understand that culture isn't the only force at work here.
But that's the problem with the modern cultural left - they believe culture is everything. There's no room for innate biological traits and the difficult questions biology raises about our behaviour. So all ills must have a source in culture, and all terrible behaviour must have it's roots in the institutions of power. Let's be honest and call it the patriarchy.
It's an attractive dogma, and it's pervasive in academia and the media. But science is making it increasingly difficult for anyone to believe we can change everything by changing culture.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
I'm just not sure how you can look at the history of systemic cover-ups of sexual assault (Penn State, the military, Catholic Church, university campuses, residential schools, etc., etc.) who is at risk (socioeconomic factors are huge), and not come to the conclusion that culture plays a huge role.
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Institutions protect their members, yes. But are they especially liable to protect their members from sexual crimes? Don't they also protect their members from other crimes and scandals?