It's not clear that the way some women's rights activists are going about this is actually reducing the number of rapes and rape threats.
It's not clear whether slogans like this
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actually lead to a decrease in violence against women.
Do you think it is up to women to stop men raping?
Do you think it is up to women's rights activists to stop men from raping women?
You should have an answer to that question.
You don't have the moral highground if you can't actually solve the world's problems.
Firstly, I spent a large portion of my life prosecuting rapists and child abusers.
Secondly, to solve the issue of men's attitudes to women, which encompass misogyny and sexism, starts in the home. If men are sexist and/or misogynists, then they teach their children that. It is up to society to demand that men (and women for that matter) not rape.
If we want to see the end of sexual harassment and street harassment, rape, domestic violence, the onus must not be placed on the victim and potential victim, in this instance, on women, to not be harassed, abused, raped.
It never ceases to amaze me when I see individuals, such as yourself, place the onus on women to end or reduce rape, sexual harassment or abuse. That's not on us. Do you understand what I am saying here?
The onus must be placed on the perpetrators to not sexually harass, abuse, rape, etc. Not on the victims to stop or prevent such abuse and crimes from taking place.
You have mentioned this a few times now, as though you expect feminists to stop or prevent rapes. To wit, you are placing the onus on the victims and potential victims of this sort of abuse to somehow stop or prevent it. That's not on us. That falls on you and other males to not commit such abuses and violent acts.
Most importantly, men, from a very young age, have to be taught to respect women as equals and to not rape and abuse women. In other words, boys have to be taught to not hate their female counterparts because they are female.
Kenya have started a rape prevention program that predominately targets boys in high school, as well as teaching girls self defense classes, boys are taught about rape and not to rape.. With huge success and a fairly large drop in rapes, not to mention boys who went through the program were more likely to intervene and stop a rape or sexual assault and sexual harassment and street harassment numbers dropped for the groups of boys who went through this program. They are planning on making this program compulsory for high school children, with the focus being placed on boys to not rape, sexually harass and sexually assault women and to prevent violence against women.
A similar program in Vancouver, targeting educating men to not rape has also been widely successful. Most importantly, these programs place the onus on the boy/man to not rape and sexually assault women. Studies have also shown just how well these programs work.
To sum it up, it's not on feminists to stop rape and sexual harassment and assaults. It's on men to not do it and the best way to do that is to educate boys and men to not do it. These programs work to change the attitude towards women and girls.
I don't question your goals, but I question the efficacy of the methods with which you propose to attain those goals.
As long as people believe that happiness or satisfaction in life is to be sought in various material pursuits and as long as we live in a universe with limited resources, this long will there also eventually be theft, lying, robbery, assault, rape, murder.
IOW, the problem underlying rape is much bigger than just "men hating women."
And yet, these programs work.
It's about shifting the attitude that exists within society which views women as being property and objects for the taking.
Studies have found that focusing on men's attitude to women allowed men to understand the issue from the viewpoint of the victim or potential victim. To great success.