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Republican Rape Culture (100 instances)

295: Republican Voters

Enabling, Rape Culture
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When Republican voters continue to vote for sexual predators and their enablers they become accomplices in creating a culture that tolerates sexual predators. Take Roy Moore who himself admitted he was dating teenagers when he was in his thirties, he received 91% of the vote. Jim Jordan is not just some legislator from Ohio, he’s a party leader even though several college wrestlers have come forward revealing they went to Jordan for help when molested by his colleague and instead of reporting as was his duty, he helped cover up the molestation of at least 177 students. A Republican candidate for local office won his election even after confessing to murdering his wife, admittedly this was a small local election, but come on people, leave the line blank.

291: Paige Patterson

Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture, Uncategorized
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Paige Patterson is a Baptist religious leader who was a big part of the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and served as the president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Typical of conservative fundamentalists, he opposed the ordination of women. He bragged about telling a woman to stay with her abusive husband because the husband started going to church.

He was sued in 2018 for his part in covering up Paul Pressler’s sexual assaults, but was dropped because of the statute of limitations. Southwestern had him step down and made him President Emeritus. Later in the year, an investigation of the rape of a woman on campus revealed his email to campus security telling them he wanted to meet with the woman alone to “break her down.” He was then completely fired, no more emeritus title and benefits.

In 2019, a woman sued for his abuse and intimidation when she reported being repeatedly raped.by another student. She claimed to be the woman he wanted to break down. He threatened the woman’s mother with legal action for asking why the alleged rapist was still allowed on campus. He told the police that the rape was consensual sex. He told her the rape was a “good thing,” Since then he has given speeches that imply women lie about rape. He has been elected to boards and given posts by belligerently misogynist churches. Patterson claims she never told him.

278: Republican State Legislatures

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Republicans control several state legislatures and are the major impediment to reforming the various state statutes of limitations (SOL) preventing victims of child sexual abuse victims from seeking justice. Child USA tracks the progress of SOL reform in the states. Children who are abused are often not ready to report until they have processed what happened to them. Some states set an age limit for reporting and filing a civil case that favors abusers. Republican states have been slow to reform or eliminate their statute of limitations. In some states the Democratic-controlled body has passed reform several times to see it die in the Republican-controlled other body.

265: Frank Page

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Frank Page was president of the Southern Baptist Convention and president of the SBC Executive Committee until 2018 when he resigned due to what he called a “morally inappropriate relationship.” That is not why he’s on this list because it may have been with a consenting adult. He is on this list because of the decades long Southern Baptist Convention coverup of pastoral sexual abuse of children and church members. Page suggested survivor activists were just setting up the church for lawsuits.

258: Roger Rivard

Rape Culture
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Roger Rivard was a Wisconsin state representative for one term. His crass remarks regarding a local rape involving a 17-year-old raping a 14-year-old in the band room at school. He said “some girls rape easy.” This was, he claimed, his father’s advice. Thinking to explain the full context, he said:

“What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’

256: Robert Fisher

Rape Culture
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Robert Fisher was a state representative in New Hampshire from 2014 to 2017. He resigned after The Daily Beast identified him as the founder of The Red Pill, a disgusting and misogynistic forum on reddit. He created many online pseudonymous account that linked back to his personal email. The first Daily Beast article shows multiple ways they tracked him from The Red Pill.

He posted hateful things like “Feminists are obsessed with rape because we live in a rape fantasy culture, where feminists wish they were hot enough to be rape-able,” When they tracked him down to ask, he wiped all his posts and went private on social media. He did continue, though, with a different pseudonym.

228: Brett Kavanaugh

Rape Culture, Sexual Assault
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Brett Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court Justice. During his confirmation hearing, news of an attempted rape allegation was leaked to the media and became a significant part of his confirmation hearing. Like Clarence Thomas before him, he indulged in an angry rant that shut off further inquiry into the allegation.

Christine Blasey Ford testified at the hearing and so did Kavanaugh. He produced his calendar from back in high school to provide himself an alibi, though it substantiated her timeline more effectively than his. Other women came forward alleging sexual assaults but they were not called as witnesses and their allegations were not investigated. The FBI did not do an investigation of her allegation, though they claimed to have done so at the time. Tips about Kavanaugh’s past were not forwarded for investigation but instead sent to the White House.

210: Joe Arpaio

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Joa Arpaio is most well-known for glorying in abusive prison conditions and his racist hatred of Latinos. He was Trump’s favorite sheriff and was convicted of contempt of court for refusing a judge’s order to stop racial profiling. Trump promptly pardoned him. However, contemptible as his treatment of prisoners and immigrants was, he is on the list for his office’s mishandling of more than 400 sexual assault cases.