How many men feel that rape is not a serious crime?
I would think the same number, probably, who act as if women spontaneously create children just to spite them. There will always be the power-crime rapists, and they tend to do the most physical damage, but the “I’m a nice guy, I just think all men are out for sex all the time and it’s up to women to stop them” types are the ones who sometimes do the most overall damage. (See: the many flavors of date rape.) These are the same guys who tend to claim that once they’re turned on, they lose all control of themselves, and who also blame women for “making them aroused” in an attempt to shift responsibility away from themselves. The guys who talk about their sex hormones as if they’re crack: “under the influence of lust, I am powerless, and so not responsible for my actions.” Fortunately it’s not all men, or most. I was recently reading a study about a questionnaire given to guys on college campuses. It was a description of various kinds of sexual assault, but phrased in neutral language and
