If the average straight white male
grew as disgusted with slut-shaming as he does Taylor Swift's new single or teenage girls setting their profile pictures to "duck-face" selfies,
was as enraged with men who think having sex with intoxicated women is perfectly legal and justifiable as he is with his hometown's star athlete upon signing with another city's team,
or turned his back to rape jokes as quickly as he does overweight women,
spent half as much time as he does fixated on sports educating his friends on how to respect females,
were as eager to participate in protests addressing the consequences of victim-blaming as he is to lose his virginity,
were as humiliated to belong to a sex in which 58% would "force a woman to have sex" if they could get away with it as he is when someone suggests he is homosexual
viewed treating women as his equal as "manly" or "masculine" as he does guns, fishing, and hunting
or associated sexual violence and assault with the same weakness he transcribes to crying in public and "chick flicks"
the perpetuation of rape culture would cease to exist.
Note: Statistic taken from Margo Maine's Body Wars.
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