Secondly, this is a feminist blog. I don’t blame all men for anything. I blame a cultural system that gives privilage to some while it hurts others. This is often refered to as the Patriarchy in feminist circles as when they look at this system they are looking at how it puts men in a position of privalge and hurts women. However the system is far more complex than that as there are all types of privilage. (i.e. Male privilage, white privilage, economic privilage, heteronormative privilage etc.)

SO yes I do blame the patriarchy, but really I should say Kyriachy as I am against all forms of oppression. I don’t have all the solutions, but I’m at least working on it. If we waited untill we had a perfect solution for a problem it would never get solved.

Thirdly, I never said that a particular evil was male or female, in fact I didn’t mention evil at all and i believe that the idea of gender roles should be done away with and that most associations with gender are culturally constructed. There are plenty of “masculine girls” and “feminine boys” and they shouldn’t have to conform to what they “should” be.

Fourthly, I never said all men are rapists the article implied that: “Thus, considering the power of the primal urges that afflict young men and women, their ignorance of how to handle them and the temptations put in their way, it is unsurprising that things happen such as those which allegedly occurred in West Auckland last weekend.”

I was shocked that these alleged acts were being refered to as unchecked primal urges. That as a culture we accept that men are rapists because “boys will be boys” which is what I mean when i use the term “rape culture”