Does the famous V-J Day in Times Square "kiss" photo promote rape culture?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://lawsonry.com/2012/08/is-this-famous-photo-fueling-rape-culture

The things you find when you check out the second wave feminist subforum in DU (that basically everyone else hates, including other feminists. It's like their equivalent of the 2012 forum) I'd say "LOL" but it's so dumb it's not even funny.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

No and anyone who votes yes should be banned

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The story behind it is problematic, but it isn't fueling anything.

[minionofmidas]

You're saying that like it's a bad thing.

[後援会]

The things you find when you check out the second wave feminist subforum in DU (that basically everyone else hates, including other feminists. It's like their equivalent of the 2012 forum) I'd say "LOL" but it's so dumb it's not even funny.

You're acting as if this were an isolated, radical fringe. There are a lot more of these people than you'd think especially among the white upper class.

[Kitteh]

The story behind it is problematic, but it isn't fueling anything.

[memphis]

The things you find when you check out the second wave feminist subforum in DU (that basically everyone else hates, including other feminists. It's like their equivalent of the 2012 forum) I'd say "LOL" but it's so dumb it's not even funny.

You're acting as if this were an isolated, radical fringe. There are a lot more of these people than you'd think especially among the white upper class.

White upper class women don't have political views. They're too busy shopping and scolding the nanny. In any case, the man haters are usually the unattractive girls who haven't been treated right. Money has very little to do with it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That would be an odd way of putting things, but it's certainly not an especially comfortable image, at least not when you look closely.

As regards the thread generally: guys, stop. Seriously.

[danny]

It only promotes rape culture to people who are looking for that.

[Oakvale]

White upper class women don't have political views. They're too busy shopping and scolding the nanny. In any case, the man haters are usually the unattractive girls who haven't been treated right. Money has very little to do with it.

Jesus Christ.

[ingemann]

The things you find when you check out the second wave feminist subforum in DU (that basically everyone else hates, including other feminists. It's like their equivalent of the 2012 forum) I'd say "LOL" but it's so dumb it's not even funny.

You're acting as if this were an isolated, radical fringe. There are a lot more of these people than you'd think especially among the white upper class.

White upper class women don't have political views. They're too busy shopping and scolding the nanny. In any case, the man haters are usually the unattractive girls who haven't been treated right. Money has very little to do with it.

Congratulation you succeed in answering a slightly misogynist post with such a degree of ignorant bigotry, that the former post ended up looking positive pro-feministic.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes, it's quite a remarkable effort, even by the standards of this forum. Perhaps we are better off assuming that it was satire.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

You're saying that like it's a bad thing.

It obviously is.

[LastVoter]

The responses in this thread certainly do.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

It only promotes rape culture to people who are looking for that.

[Simfan34]

This thread hurts my head.