Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Belsnickel]

(05-13-2016, 09:50 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: The courts would disagree with you. If they gave consent it's not rape. Some people believe that lying to someone to have sex is taking advantage of someone and is rape. Which isn't rape either. If they give consent it's not rape. If they're passed out or incapacitated then they can't give consent. The court system agrees with me too, and no one else has been able to provide evidence to contradict that.

If a rape culture exists, it will guide the laws through its views. Laws are based on culture and society. I've pointed this out before, and this is what you're missing in your argument. Society guides law. If society and culture has been for years that drunk consent equals consent, then that is what guides the law. For years things like suggestive dress could be used to excuse rape, and society changed their mind on that (or is in the process of doing so, given some of the comments in the thread). Society is changing its attitude on drunken consent. But more importantly, the idea that taking advantage of a drunk person to sleep with them is not rape legally does not refute the idea of a rape culture, it in fact is evidence in favor of one existing.