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1. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
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I suppose we'll have to disagree. Would you like me to support the title's wording using the article? Please address these passages, then.
>In our culture, men are shown that they are valued if they are comfortable with and able to participate in violence and stand up for themselves in a physical way. Being “a man” in the traditional sense means distancing oneself from compassion and empathy, and these rough and tough characteristics in turn foster more violent actions against others.
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>Eating meat, after all, has long been associated with masculinity; since pretty much the dawn of advertising, commercials have explicitly linked meat-eating to desirable manliness. To name but a few of the most egregious examples from the last few years, there was the Carl’s Jr.’s ad depicting X-Men’s Mystique morphing into a ripped manly man after consuming a bacon cheeseburger (with the tagline “Man Up”); Burger King’s “I Am Man” commercial, in which a guy sings about not settling for “chick food”; and the Taco Bell “Guys Love Bacon” campaign.
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>Moreover, men are told that they should be sexually dominant toward women, pursuing them in a sport-like manner. These sexual and behavioral dynamics are at the root of rape culture in America, where one in five women report having been sexually assaulted with approximately 98% of rapes against women perpetrated by a man.
and the coup de grace:
>It’s not just the bodies of other people that men are told to oppress and domineer; animals, too, are seen as theirs to dispassionately dominate. Ninety-one percent of hunters are male — and of course, it’s men who are told that eating meat, even to their health detriment, is the manly thing to do.
It is not I who am mistaken. It is you, and this ridiculous article. The only thing I could perhaps challenge about the title is the use of the word "directly", but as you can see from the article, the author attempts to provide a causal path from carnivorousness to damaging male behavior. No, I think the title was worded just fine.
See, I think we're talking at cross purposes. You are literally defining the word "feminism" as the result of "whatever perfect moral good dictates you personally believe should happen in any situation". But how is that definition useful unless you have some way to guarantee that everyone uses the word that same way? Because — spoiler alert — nobody else really does.
Most people who identify as feminists either hew to their own personal moral compasses — including biases and prejudices and blind spots — instead of knowing anything about let alone hewing to your biases and blind spots and prejudices, or else they just hew to "whatever some other famous-sounding feminist told them to hew to". Whatever some author wrote in their book, whatever some celebrities endorse on their talk shows, whatever some academics espouse that gets enshrined in several federal laws, etc.
Plus, this misunderstanding leads to the false solidarity of running to the defense of any person who hides behind that word as a banner. Why would abusers fail to flock to whatever unquestioning haven opens their arms to them for naught but the utterance of some magic word?
Who does that?
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Oh wait, you mean that you are doing that to her. She's a feminist and you are talking about how she's wrong. Hypocrisy much?