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Conservative M.P. says there's a widespread belief that treating women like objects is "cool."
  • Oh yes....

    Sounds like a feminist wet dream fantasy.

    Oh yes. Cause the idea of misogyny being rampant is a sexual turn on for feminists (and whats with the sexualized metaphor anyways?).

    No where does anyone actually look at what Cameron says (even though I doubt the sheer number). Guys presume that if a girl is being flirtatious that she is therefore asking for sex. Half of guys think its okay to have sex without clear cut consent in some cases. These statements are neither shocking, nor that far from the truth.

    The log in the above commenter's eyes though, is the fact that they imagine some sort of rape scenario out of Law and Order. A sickened pervert, prowling central park, pouncing like a beast. The reality is, like most great sins, far more mundane. The person who has too many, and doesn't say no, but really doesn't say yes. The person who doesn't want to, but is put into a compromised emotional situation. These sorts of incidents are frequent, but often time do not calculate or compute as rape, for neither victim nor aggressor. But rape it is.

    So would most prey at night? No. But the number of people who coax a hesitant yes out of someone? Fairly high.