Remember, “rape culture” is just a myth

**Trigger warning**

A few days ago, I came across (yet another) blog post about “the myth of ‘rape culture’” and no, I’m not linking to it here. Last night on Twitter, thanks to The Nation’s Aura Bogado – read her latest here – I came across (yet another) hashtag that had descended into… well, I’ll let you see for yourself.

But wait, there’s more.

So just remember, folks, next time you hear some uptight, panties-in-a-twist feminist ranting about “rape culture” and “normalization of intimate violence” and “people not taking sexual violence seriously,” that those harpies are full of it. Rape culture is just a myth! I mean, I had to look really hard to find the dozens of examples I found of references to roofies, chloroform, car trunks, bats, slipping molly into champagne, and just telling her she’s going whether she likes it or not! I had to scour the internet. I had to click on a hashtag. I mean, you’ll find sexism everywhere if you look hard enough.

Or, you could just wake up and look around and realize that, holy shit, we live in a rape culture - nothing mythical about it.