We don’t have a rape culture here. We don’t shield rapists. Conviction rates for rapists are about the same as any other typical crime. If there were a rape culture, rapists would be convicted at criminally low rates compared to what our justice system can do. Meaning, shortcomings, flaws, and the inability to prove someone guilty beyond reasonable doubt hamper all criminality fairly equally, and it’s a shortcoming, not evidence of excusing or promoting crime, specifically rapist.

Asking someone about the events and circumstances of how a crime occurred is standard, even for crimes of rape. It is very uncomfortable and difficult to do, and hard on the victim, but is something that occurs for all crime and legal processes. It isn’t evidence of victim blaming. The prosecutor takes one stance and the defense takes the opposite and they argue from those positions. That is not an attempt to victim blame. That is what happens in all our criminal cases.

If you’re under the presumption that we do have a rape culture, there will be little I can do to dissuade you of than notion. But we don’t have a rape culture.

This is clear certainly when you must rely on Islamist countries to explain rape culture, and it’s present there in many cases, but we look and act nothing like those cultures. And to suggest otherwise denotes a lack of intellectual maturity and sound judgement.