OP didn't get the desired response - so therefore he or she threw a tantrum and deleted the post. Nice... but I'm going to respond anyway, with two points.
First, the "teach men not to rape" campaign is not designed to stop rape. It's designed to imply
quite directly that rape is something
men do - a flaw that exists in men
that must be corrected. It does a terrible disservice to everyone by
making it seem like rape is an accident. It's a social lie about men, a
ridiculous misconception about the crime, and an insult to rape victims.
It dilutes the crime down from "this person deliberately hurt that
person" to "Oops, my bad. Sorry."
Saying the campaign is necessary because females don't understand
that it's rape when they violate someone is just as ridiculous as saying
the campaign is necessary because males don't understand. When a female
rapes, she isn't doing that because she doesn't know it's wrong. She's
doing that because
she doesn't care, the same way as when a
male rapes. Either she wants to hurt her victim, or she has a sense of
entitlement (not the same as not knowing that abuse is wrong), or she
has no moral compunctions against hurting someone to get what she wants,
or she affords the rights and experiences of her victim less value and
importance than she places on her own.
The unvarnished, basic
truth of rape is that you cannot violate the victim without violating
the victim's bodily autonomy. You cannot violate the victim's bodily
autonomy without knowing that you're ignoring the victim's right to say no, or ignoring the victim's circumstantial inability to say no.
An actual rapist, like any other abuser, isn't an innocent person who
just stumbles past a boundary he or she doesn't know exists. The act of
rape is a result of
not caring about that boundary -
deliberately contravening or ignoring another person's right or ability
to refuse sexual contact. It isn't an accident, and it's shameful that
feminism has begun using
treatment of rape as an accidental behavior as part of their political agenda.
Second, even if such a campaign were justified by feminist logic, that same logic justifies starting a "Don't Teach Men Not to Get Falsely Accused. Teach Women Not to Lie" campaign.
Would you find it acceptable for the men's rights movement to start a
"don't teach men to document their lives, teach women not to lie"
campaign, complete with infographics, posters all over school campuses,
social networking sites, and social clubs where men and women interact?
Perhaps you could also assist in spreading the message that consent to
social interaction is not consent to be dragged through the bowels of
the legal system should one's acquaintance, friend, or partner decide
that it's easier to make a rape accusation than to deal with some level
of inconvenience... like fighting a custody battle, or even just paying a
$13 cab fare?
Certainly, it should not matter that the majority of women don't make
false accusations of rape or domestic violence. Based on the logic of
the "Teach men not to rape" campaign, women who
don't file
false charges shouldn't be offended that such a campaign is being
waged... they should be offended that society thinks so little of
women's morals, toughness, and self-control that the problem of false
accusations is so easily accepted and dismissed with excuses like "if
you prosecute proven false accusers, female victims won't press
charges."
Women should be deeply insulted by the assertion that we are
so unable to differentiate between the truth and a false accusation that
we'd fear prosecution too much to present evidence of any crime. Women
should be horrified that society sees us as so weak and so incapable
that compromising due process rights and incarcerating innocent men is
seen as preferable to holding our accusations to the same standard of
evidence that any other accusation of criminal assault faces. In light
of the logic used to justify the "teach men not to rape" campaign, there
really is no reason why women should object to the promotion of a
related "teach women not to lie" campaign. In fact, since the "teach men
not to rape" campaign encourages men to police other men's behavior,
ethical women should should feel responsible for making sure the anti-lie message also gets heard.
So... when is feminism going to get to work on that?