Teed Rockwell
1 min readNov 27, 2022

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This isn’t true, but I’m not interested in digging up the evidence showing that it isn’t true. if you want to continue believing that, go ahead. But if you had read any of the testimony that emerged with the me /too movement, you would know that unreported rapes vastly outnumber the ones that get tried in court. The important point, though, is that in our society, a woman violating modesty standards is still considered by many people to exonerate the man committing the rape. That is what the author meant when she said that modesty culture creates rape culture. This is not as true about Western society as it used to be, but you can still see that attitude in the comments of many people about rapes. That defense probably doesn’t work very well in a court of law anymore, but the weakening of that defense happened as modesty standards became less strict.

as I said before, the fact that you are now having to rely on factual evidence for your argument shows that even if her claims are false, they are not logical fallacies. you are the one who committed a logical fallacy by claiming that because modesty was not rape, modesty culture was not rape culture. this is a fallacy of ambiguity where two similar terms with different meetings are conflated with each other.

I think we both spent enough time on this. Let’s declare a truce and move on.

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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