Unfortunately, many professional journalists and internet partisans seem to think this is a political issue, to be solved with debates, regulations, laws, rules, and force. In some ways it is–I believe rapists deserve far more extreme penalties for their crimes than they currently receive, for example–but in a way, the political problems we see are symptoms of social brokenness, something that cannot be easily tackled in aggregate.

I would be interested in reading suggestions for how, as a nation, we could move toward a more egalitarian focus towards rape and gender issues in general (another good problem is the double-standard in rape cases in which men are the victims, especially in the military, or even prison). Hopefully, as more and more young people have access to information and education through the internet and as we, as a society, are forced to face these issues more directly, we will choose to change ourselves and, thereby, change our culture.