Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Brownshoe]

(05-13-2016, 10:13 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

So, you're only evidence of rape culture is that the courts don't agree with your opinion. I really wouldn't call that evidence. Maybe that's you just having a too broad of a term of rape.