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And men were offended and said I'm conflating the desire for sex with rape and went on to say rape has nothing to do with sex. "Rape is about power and totally unlike real sex", they said.

I find it interesting that men make such a hard distinction between rape and sex. If such a distinction exists in the minds of men, why are so many rapists under the impression that they're having regular sex?

Rape "has nothing to do with sex" yet the #MeToo movement was littered with men expressing that they had zero clue that their sexual expressions were considered rapey or predatory. Time and time again men expressed that they thought it was a natural, healthy expression of male sexuality to rape women. Entire discussions were had about how in the 70s, slipping a woman quaaludes to loosen her up or render her unconscious was normal. That putting your coworker's hand on your erection was flirting etc. In the ongoing rape case in France, where over 70 men raped an unconscious woman on the invite of her husband- many have so far cited in their defense that they did not think it was rape because her husband was there (the idea that a wife's body belongs to her husband clearly still in their mind).

I'm sure many Afghan men taking 10-year-olds for brides right now are under the belief that they're having normal intercourse with a "wife", instead of brutally raping a child.

This is the insidious and very slippery aspect of rape culture, men claim to know what rape is and be horrified by it while at the same time insisting the rapes they're committing are normal sex. Keeping rape distal helps facilitate rape. In this way, rape is always some almost fictional type of sex that only exists hypothetically in some other time or space, for men-it's never what they're doing in the present moment. That way, they don't have to think about what they're doing. "Yes rape is bad but any type of sex I'm having is never rape."

So I went and did some quick research and

It’s basically as bad as it sounds

They started breaking ground in 2019 but the government has been trying to build this airport since 2011. More and more of the locals don’t want it because of how it’ll destroy the area even though they’ve been offered a lot of money for their land and promised jobs. None of the scientists who work in the area want it. South America like Chile/Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador/etc etc etc are such unique and old places. The ecology in South America is so special and has species that are nowhere else in the world. The landscape is unusual and special. The people there have been able to maintain traditions despite colonization in a lot of cases. The artifacts there are priceless, we’ve lost so so so much to colonization, knowledge, architecture, culture, artifacts. These areas are delicate and need protection. A lot of the governments in South America have corruption, like anywhere else. The people and land are constantly sacrificed. The Atacama desert in Chile has so so much to protect and they’re mining nonstop for copper, polluting water, evicting eighty year olds and disabled people to make way for construction, piping away their water and plowing through a delicate desert ecosystem. There’s a clothes dump so big there you can see it from space

There’s so so much to lose in South America. If you visit the altiplano in Bolivia, there are native farmers living out there essentially off grid. Chile has many indigenous groups still despite being so industrialized. We still have Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche being spoken every day. The landscape MATTERS to us. It breaks my heart to see the land so disrespected and ruined. The people are connected to the land. You can talk to almost any indigenous group and they’ll tell you the same thing. It’s a cultural thing that was passed down for thousands of years. The shapes the mountains make against the sky, the way a lake sits between the hills, flocks of guanaco and vicuña grazing. The landscape is sacred and old