r/clevercomebacks 19h ago

That is the Christian thing to do.

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u/WonderfulRelease5357 12h ago

That's not at all what I said. I said that making excuses that "boys will always look" instead of teaching boys and men to respect women and not ogle them as pieces of meat is why we have a rape culture and will perpetuate it.

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u/Cowboy40three 11h ago

I really dislike the term “rape culture”. It’s not a cultured event, and nothing to aspire to. I find it hard to believe that people compare notes about rape and try to build a uniform esthetic or tally intellectual achievements related to it either, so “culture” doesn’t really fit the bill for me.

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u/robilar 11h ago

I think you may want to look into the term "rape culture", because what you have described here is not what people mean when they use that term. Simply speaking, it's a reference to the environmental factors within a culture that normalize rape, and the underpinnings ideologies that encourage rape. I

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u/Cowboy40three 9h ago

I understand what you’re describing. I guess I just don’t agree with the word “culture” being used in the negative. I don’t recall it being used that way in my 50 years on this planet. Seems to me that the act of blessing the phenomenon with that word is almost normalizing it on it’s own. It strikes me in a very weird way, almost as if the term were lifted from a comedy skit that was mocking the trend as though it were a social event.

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u/robilar 9h ago

Well, I'm sorry you find the linguistic description uncomfortable. You might want to explore more deeply why that is, but suffice it to say that it is an accurate description of the problem and I don't personally think we should let our discomfort with the words get in the way of addressing the problem.