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The Debate community here is older than this website. It was a coherent group from at least 2002, and was one of the first and most enthusiastic groups to move to MTGS when MTGNews collapsed. I should know; I created the Debate forum here.
I don't post here anymore, and I don't know if you care what I think. But to treat them like this is shameful.
See this is the problematic thing I find about all of these arguments regarding "rape culture." I've yet to read one that accentuates how rape is a crime that is committed against both genders. And I'm not talking about the "violence against women also harms men" arguments, I'm talking about pointing out that men who are raped by women actually have it worse in our culture.
Also, pointing out that they actually exist.
I just find the whole thing odd. If people are campaigning for rape awareness, you really would think that the number of men who get raped and their treatment by society would be a subject of discussion, as opposed to the focal point being exclusively women.
Of course rape is a crime committed against both genders. That's not the point.
Only one gender is taught that coercing the other to have sex by any means is considered sporting and cool. Only one gender has major pop cultural, religious, and political figures who have admitted to (or continue openly!) to brutalize individuals of the other gender. And only one gender commits 80%+ of these crimes.
Of course we need to fix the problem of female-on-male (and male-on-male!) rape. But the one is systemic, the other incidental.
**The mist began to shift and solidify, hardening into a spectral knight, ten feet tall and covered in bristling armor. At his side hung a long, strange-looking sword.**
Édouard - "In my dream, they would only come to life when you were near them... if you got some distance, they would freeze again. Too many here for that, though."
**In the middle part of his wanderings, Heulen found himself adrift in dark woods. On every side loomed oaks of such colossal age that every valley of their trunks seemed carved in, that their intertwining arms made a canopy of inescapable gloom. The ground was dry and crunched softly before his feet, the air heavy with rot and growth and magic. Heulen was lost, as surely as anyone who ever wandered. But then, through the obstructing trunks, he saw the flickering light of a torch, which he realized (drawing closer) was the entrance of a great and a ancient tomb. Inscribed above the empty doorway: I Await Yet My Day.**
**They had evidently misjudged their route. This time they found a broad plain of short grass, filled to the horizon by wooden carvings of soldiers, perfectly still. A quarter mile through them was a smoldering hole.**
The Debate community here is older than this website. It was a coherent group from at least 2002, and was one of the first and most enthusiastic groups to move to MTGS when MTGNews collapsed. I should know; I created the Debate forum here.
I don't post here anymore, and I don't know if you care what I think. But to treat them like this is shameful.
Of course rape is a crime committed against both genders. That's not the point.
Only one gender is taught that coercing the other to have sex by any means is considered sporting and cool. Only one gender has major pop cultural, religious, and political figures who have admitted to (or continue openly!) to brutalize individuals of the other gender. And only one gender commits 80%+ of these crimes.
Of course we need to fix the problem of female-on-male (and male-on-male!) rape. But the one is systemic, the other incidental.
Édouard - "In my dream, they would only come to life when you were near them... if you got some distance, they would freeze again. Too many here for that, though."
Édouard - "I... dreamt this place once."