Douthat: Stopping Campus Rape

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Rape culture.

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No one hurricane or flood can be specifically, proximately pinpointed as 100 percent the result of global warming, but obviously their increased occurrence, in aggregate, can be attributed to a warmer climate and higher oceans.  It's the same here.

This is what we call "missing the forest for the trees".  Or, perhaps, a political decision to gain the support of those folks who have an allergic reaction to feminist language- a decision that perhaps makes some limited pragmatic sense, but seems strategically counterproductive to me.

[Lurker]

Rape culture.

From RAINN (US's largest anti-rape org)Quote

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No one hurricane or flood can be specifically, proximately pinpointed as 100 percent the result of global warming, but obviously their increased occurrence, in aggregate, can be attributed to a warmer climate and higher oceans.  It's the same here.

This is what we call "missing the forest for the trees".  Or, perhaps, a political decision to gain the support of those folks who have an allergic reaction to feminist language- a decision that perhaps makes some limited pragmatic sense, but seems strategically counterproductive to me.

Though rape numbers have been decreasing rather than increasing, unlike the occurence of hurricanes. As culture is apparently such an important explanatory factor, can this decrease be attributed to cultural changes over the last few decades?

Well, statistics on sexual assault are super tricky, because they are (and have been) so under-reported, for various reasons.  But assuming the trend line is at least correct, than it's more than fair to make that hypothesis.