Is THIS What Women Burned Their Bras For?

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There are a number of discussions on myLot this morning about the Stanford rape case, where a superstar college athlete got off with a six month sentence because he is a superstar college athlete. It seems more and more that our society is demeaning women, even worse than back in the so-called "bad old days" when women were "housewives." In the late 60s and early 70s women "burned their bras" for women's rights. Looking at things, I can't help but think, "Is this what women burned their bras for?" I remember reading a review of the film Deliverance that described the scene where Ned Beatty's character is raped as "the most disturbing rape case in film." Well, yeah, a guy thinks that because it's a GUY being sexually assaulted. He probably didn't think twice about the awful scene in A Clockwork Orange because, hey, that's a woman, and it's a woman's place to titilate. Think about this: you don't see dogs killed anywhere in entertainment. Why? We all love animals and we would be outraged if they showed a dog being shot or a kitten being tortured. But yet we sit there and pay these people $12-$15 a ticket to show graphic, horrible depictions of men torturing women. (I can't tell you how long it took me to get over one scene in Walking Tall Part II). Worse, women pay it -- and don't say a word about it!!! We also have these so-called "country" songs -- the horrid "bro-country" era that is mercifully over for the most part -- that turned women into sex objects. "Hey, country girl, shake 'it' for me, and for the animals, too," one says. "Give her a tequila and off come her clothes," says another (the exact same argument that Brock Turner made that "forced him" to rape this woman: she gets drunk and gets naked, what can anyone do?). You know who the biggest audience for these "country" songs is? Women. A guy can sing about having sex with a drunk woman because he's a hunk and they'll buy it in droves, but they get upset when someone does that in real life? In other words, our "culture" has become a rape culture. Rape isn't considered an act of violence anymore, it's "just sex." It's not even considered a "serious" crime: in Kentucky, over three thousand rape test kits (to gather DNA evidence to help find the criminal) just sat there for years without anyone caring about the victims represented in those cases. If it were men being raped do you think for a second that this would happen? We want to remove any and every reference to the "War Between the States" because it's attached to slavery, but we don't even blink at the notion of all of these young women all over the world -- including right here in the United States -- being sold as sex slaves right now. And women burned their bras for this.