Why did you ignore the part where I mentioned most rapes are perpetrated by someone who knows the victim prior to the episode?

I edited my post before you submitted your response to address that.

Ok... And when did I say that women don't take precautions? Why are you ignoring that entire phrase of the comment you quoted?

I was addressing the notion that merely taking precautions implies victim blaming when you mentioned in one of your posts that: "But sometimes telling women to 'take precautions' becomes telling them they deserved it because of how they dress, or otherwise blaming them for the actions of the criminal, who is usually absolved of all guilt in these discussions or at least ignored."

Why is it so much harder to teach people not to rape than it is to tell women all the things they should do to hopefully prevent rape?

Here's what I don't like: Being accused of already being a rapist and/or thinking that it's in my nature to become one. To the point that I have to be extremely careful/completely avoid a segment of the female population that would misinterpret, say, asking a woman out or misinterpreting a sentence and thinking that it means I'm a sex-crazed fiend.

Please, we're not that bone-headed. The reality is that the majority of men in the US do not rape (the number population-wise, however, is high, but the percentage of American men who rape with respect to the total population is very low). It's not an issue of not knowing that rape is wrong, or that having sex without consent is wrong. Men in the US already know this to be true. If you're talking about, say, India, then such an education would make sense, but I would argue that it's not the issue here.

If anything, it's a mixture of problems. In some cases, it's a lack of sufficient punishment after definitive proof has been provided (like the military) and the lack of reciprocal punishment for those that have utterly lied about such a thing happening (like what happened with the Duke lacrosse team incident).