pragmatists vs ideologues: on rape culture theorists and Jim C. Hines

I reject rape culture theory for the same reason RAINN does: I'm a pragmatist. I want rape to be addressed in the most effective way possible. When I'm wrong, I'm glad to be corrected because I'm not committed to an ideology that I feel obliged to defend.

When I think of people committed to a belief, I think of the Seventh Day Adventists, who were certain Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. When that didn't happen, they tweaked their beliefs and kept going. The Adventists I've met have bee...