White Conservative Male Dares to Ask the Question Every White Conservative Male Has Dared to Ask: Why Should I Have to Care About Rape?
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 23, 2014
As shocking and disturbing as it may seem, there’s still a segment of the Penis-American population who believe that women are property and useful primarily for sexual release, raising their children, and cooking their meals.
Some believe the primary role for a woman is to make the difficult job of being man easier, and that her place is to provide her man with sex in order to relieve the stress of his day to day responsibilities. A woman should have no dreams apart from the happiness and fulfillment of her husband and children. It’s a great thing to believe if you’re a man; who wouldn’t want to have someone whose chief responsibility is catering to his needs and desires and whose top priority is ensuring his happiness? That there’s no corresponding responsibility for a man says a lot about which gender created and has promulgated this backwards philosophy of the role of women. If you’re a man, and you believe that woman exists to serve man…well, what self-respecting guy would have a problem with that…amiright???
Except that believing that woman lives to serve man is as self-serving (for males) as it is insulting to women. What if a woman has dreams that don’t necessarily include a husband and family? What if a woman has (GASP!!) no desire to have children? There are women out there who want to do things with their lives that don’t necessarily involve raising a family…and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. If a man can do it (I did), then a woman should be allowed the same opportunity without the suspicion that there’s something wrong with her. (OHMIGOD…IS SHE A LESBIAN??)
Why should men be concerned about rape? Because if you’re seriously asking that question, there’s something terribly wrong with you. The idea that rape isn’t a big deal, that there’s no reason why you should be concerned about it is as inhuman as it is ridiculous. No woman- no PERSON- deserves to be assaulted and have something forcibly taken from them. A woman has the right to expect to be treated with dignity and respect, just as any man would. When she’s raped, it’s something that should concern all of us- male or female- because to hold rape to be of no concern is to believe that women are the property of men, and that a man has the right to take what he wants.
Conservative men- and men in general- need to understand that a woman has the same rights they do. Rape is a violation of not only a woman, but those who love her and care about her. A man who sincerely believes that he has the right to rape because women exist for his sexual gratification is a monster and ultimately a threat to all of us. If he’ll rape a woman, what’s to stop him from using violence to obtain what he wants in other aspects of his life?
Women deserve better. We all deserve better.