Rape culture exists in North America

"A Threat is defined as "An expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage". [21] Note, that it is the expression of intention that defines a threat, not the intention itself. When someone wrote "imma kill u and rape u", it didn't matter whether or not the writer intended to follow through or not. Just writing that they were going to do it was enough to make it a threat. Therefore, all the threats listed in Round 1 were "legitimate threats" because they all expressed intention." But they only constitute towards rape culture if the author of those threats expressed legitimate intention to rape. This has not been proven, all that has been proven is that they had extreme emotion towards the victim. There are two points I want to make in regards to Trump's statement: "1) A Significant Minority of Americans Believe American Men Support Rape Culture After Trump's comments were released, a scientific study was conducted to determine the public's reaction. When asked "Do you think Donald Trump's comments about women on the recently released video are typical of the way men sometimes talk to each other about women?", 47% of Americans polled said Trump's comments were typical of men. [16] In other words, 47% of Americans polled believe American men typically make statements that promote rape culture. Likely, they would not call it supporting rape culture, but I have already shown above that that's what it is." Moreover, Trump himself expressed his discontent with what he said, calling it "locker room talk". Therefore, not serious. It is also likely that many people who supported him didn't think that he was serious too, they perhaps thoughts he was joking around. I went to the site and it said that it was 47% of voters, not Americans. I checked and roughly 200 million people in the US are voters. 47% of that is 28.9% of Americans, using America's population. If you were to take this at face value, you'd be correct. However, take into account what was said earlier. Trump himself expressed that it was locker room talk and therefore not serious. It is likely that many of his supporters also believe such and therefore may not actually believe that he was being serious in his claims. Moreover, how do we know these voters in these polls were supporting Trump's words? It is a total value, therefore including women. Some of that 28.9% may have been women expressing sexist views. What truly matters is how many of these people were defending Trump. These figures do not show if these people were defending Trump, it just showed their attitudes towards men. "The second point I want to make involves Trump himself. Trump apologized for his comments, and recanted that he had ever sexually assaulted anyone. [17] Normally, that would be sufficient evidence to show that he no longer promotes rape culture. Unfortunately, he went on to trivialize his comments by dismissing them as simply "locker room banter". [17, 18] As per the definition, trivializing sexual assault promotes rape culture, and so by downplaying his comments, Trump continues to promote rape culture." All he was stating that his words were not serious. He was stating he didn't actually do this stuff. Thus, not a component of rape culture. Moreover, he said he wasn't proud of it. Ergo, he doesn't support rape culture. "The President of the United States is the highest office in the land, and the President is a role model for all Americans. Having someone who promotes rape culture as President will, at least in a small way, legitimize and normalize the act of promoting rape culture." He stated himself that his claims were not serious and he has also said that he wasn't proud of it. He regrets it even though it was locker room talk. It is pretty clear he doesn't support it. "To put it a different way, everyone who voted for Hitler furthered the anti-Semitic cause, even if they themselves were not anti-Semitic. Similarly, over 40% of Americans polled are contributing to the promotion of rape culture, even though many may not personally agree with the idea." Godwin's law! This relies upon the idea that Trump now supports rape culture. This has not been shown to be the case. In summary, rape threats only constitute towards a rape culture if the intention behind them was legitimate, though this is both unlikely and unproven. Trump himself said his comments were locker room talk and therefore not serious or necessarily true. Hence it is likely that many of his supporters feel this way. Moreover, not all of the people cited in the statistics may have been supporting Trump; they may have been expressing misandric views. Due to the fact that it was locker room talk, and therefore not serious, and Trump regretted it later on, saying he wasn't proud of it, points to the fact that he doesn't support a rape culture.