Ten things to End Rape Culture": How to change the status quo

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75. And look at how, as a culture, we show in the ways that count that we assign little value to those

roles:

Soldiers are literally used as cannon fodder and then tossed away when their dozen tours are over, policemen are paid little, sports players are required to maim themselves to do their jobs, gangsters die young.

Action celebrities are actors. That doesn't equal violent. Executives and cowboys are not violent. Cowboys? Really?

Our culture's most respected men are nerdy brilliant men. Control of information is the source of power in our culture today, not physical force. Look around at who really makes it in our culture. It ain't the cowboys and soldiers.

Men like to tell themselves and each other that only the "he-men" make it in our society. All evidence, though, contradicts that.