Modern feminists simply aren't willing to do what it takes to end rape culture.
As a man, and one who has brutally scrutinized the behavior of other men, I will tell you right now at the primary cause of rape culture isn't men being socialized to rape specifically, it's men being socialized to view consent and boundaries as things to be negotiated and debated.
Not just with women either. This is literally the basis upon which male social hierarchies are traditionally formed (which means that any woman who says "men listen to other men but not women" have never actually seen men interact but that's for another time).
Therefore the only way to really get rid of rape culture is to dismantle the conditioning put on men to view basic boundaries and respect as something to compete over.
Yeah, feminists don't have the balls to get behind this. They simply never will. And that's for four reasons that I can think of off the top of my head.
There's all the yappy excuses about expecting men to solve their own problems, even though it's feminists who are actually campaigning for things and most men aren't even aware of how they've been taught to see boundaries anyway.
It would require acknowledging that men are hurt by the patriarchy too, which I'm noticing is becoming a progressively less popular view among feminists. I suppose men are supposed to jump in and rally behind them for purely selfless reasons or something similarly stupid.
It would rhetorically obliterate them in a pretty major way.. that way being the idea they often push that "oh the TOP MEN are all feminists you guys, so you should be too π." I'm really not interested in debating whether or not this is something feminists do. We've all seen countless arguments between feminists and others where the feminist implies that her opposition is weak or otherwise somehow less of a man because they are not a feminist too. This was a pretty stupid tactic from the very start (because the men at the top of most male social hierarchies are most decidedly NOT feminists), but I guess feminists are in some weird sunk cost fallacy about it so they seem stuck to it.. to the point where I doubt they would stop doing something that doesn't work in favor of something that actually would.
This one only really applies to feminists who are also into men but it's still worth saying. THEY STILL USE MALE SOCIAL HIERARCHY FOR SELECTION PURPOSES. No, this isn't me saying "women seek out assholes" or "liberal women secretly want conservative men" or some dumbass shit like that. I'm saying it's a simple fact that men at the tops of their respective hierarchies register as infinitely safer to most women than those beneath them. Thus women (even feminists) will often rationalize away any pushy behavior they see from those men in order to justify the feeling of safety that they have (usually some bs about the guy actually being really "chill" or even "funny"). Get rid of the instinct among men to argue with boundaries, you also get rid of the main way a large percentage of feminists use to decide on dick. There. WILL. Be. Shitty. Excuses. Not. To.
Got to hand it to feminists though. They are a tough and stubborn bunch.
I know for damn sure that I wouldn't have the patience or grit necessary to bang my head against a brick wall over and over again even after being told what will actually work.
Welp, I wish them the best of luck in continuing to sit a bunch of dudes in front of videos that just say "sexual assault = bad" and praying to the pussy church that it will do jack shit.
They're going to need a lot of it if they're going to get anything done without actually attacking the core issues.
