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In reply to the discussion: Purity Culture Is Rape Culture [View all]I don't hang out a lot at DU. Personal reasons, which I don't need to get into. I haven't been involved in a lot of the debate. I HAVE seen people get banned by MIRT for being a "misogynist". That gives some hope. But looking around today I see that the term, "feminist" takes a beating. Since it is very hard to imagine that DU members are in favor of denying human rights to ANYONE, I might conclude that disrespect to feminists is strictly a gender issue. Why else would anyone object to the same human rights for every human? I don't get it. To me, it is directly connected to the #rapeculture. In other settings I've asked .. so it's okay to rape a feminist? And even, .. so it's okay to rape a "slut"? Yes, I'm a FEMINIST! It goes with the coming of age in my generation. The only people who disparaged feminists were doing so in an attempt to keep the status quo, and make sure women did not have equal rights. We had to fight many battles. It didn't start with us. It just got rolling a little bit, and took up the battles of the brave women who came before us. It's a Sisyphus boulder. But I'm sure not going to give up because there are males who might be intimidated by a woman, and feel free to mock those of us who think women deserve to be protected from violence and prejudice.