[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

I've been hearing the term "rape culture" so much it's clearly no accident. So, what is the feminist strategy here? How does their latest word-weapon work?

Some thoughts to get thing started:

"Rape culture" tends to refer to people using the word "rape" casually, or making jokes on the subject.

Sort of like the effort to make people stop using "nazi" as a regular insult, or making Hitler jokes.

How's that working out? It's only made Hitler even more hilarious (see the new TV show Danger 5).

And what's wrong with that? See, every time someone uses "nazi" as an insult, they are saying "I accuse you of being the worst thing in the universe. I'm accusing you of being a nazi. Nazis are the worst things in the universe".

Isn't that what you wanted people to believe anyway? And why is it completely different when I'm accusing someone of being a commie, or like Stalin? Is it because Stalin only killed Slavs, and they aren't God's Chosen People so they don't count?

You see, there's no "murder culture" rule, saying you can't joke about murder. And if there was, do you think murder rates would go down? No, that would be silly. So "rape culture" is not about stopping rape, it's about something else.

And what's wrong with people saying "That video-game boss raped me" which is basically saying "When I lost that video game, it was the worst possible suffering a human being can possibly imagine, which is being raped. Rape is the worst thing ever".

You know, in ye olden times, rape was called "unmentionable acts". By making rape unmentionable you're basically saying the subject was handled better in the 19th century.

I'm going to be generous and assume that women are capable of strategic thought and long-term planning beyond what their oven-timers do for them. So what's the plan?

1. Rapists are hard to catch. The victim doesn't want to testify, there's no evidence, and rape kits are expensive, due to the greed of the rape-kit industry.

In the South, we solved this problem: when a woman was raped, we grabbed the first darkie we could find, and hung him from the closest tree. Of course, it probably wasn't the rapist, but you can't prove it wasn't effective at keeping the rape rate down. Moral of the story: if you can't find the bad guy, use collective punishment.

So that's the plan: if you can't catch the man who raped you, collectively punish all males - or better yet, every single non-feminist, by claiming that the victim was not raped by an individual, but by the entire culture. Wham! Now everybody who fails to become a dues-paying feminist is guilty of being an accessory to rape.

2. Everything feminists do is counterproductive because their nagging sounds just like our moms nagging us, which reminds us of how much fun it was to be naughty little boys and girls. And because women love "bad boys" so much, every boy learns that a certain level of badness will get him empty threats, an entertaining hissy fit, and then hugs. Being "politically incorrect" is just this level of badness, so it's no surprise that even liberals love to do this (there was even a liberal TV show whose title was "Politically Incorrect").

The only time politically correct nagging worked was in the Chinese cultural revolution, and it only worked then because the Chinese are such conformists that they'll commit suicide if enough people insult them or if someone puts a dunce cap on them.

3. Oh, I get it! Who gets to define "seriousness" anyway? The feminists! So, the plan is that feminists can talk about rape, because they are serious, but if anyone tries to get a word in edgewise, that's "rape culture" because as non-feminists they're obviously not taking it seriously. Well-played.