The major problem is our society. We think guys being predatory and manipulative is normal, it's just men being men. And we don't check such tendencies and behaviors in our boys, and many of them grow up to be manipulators and even predators supported by these wrong values and the wrong bro culture that exists in the society. We just go on policing women, and letting the men go free. They soon grow feelings that their behavior is completely normal, it's because of their biology, and they don't find it wrong or weird to go after women for their needs. I am tired of seeing comments like: "You can't control your basic urges", " The women accusing men of sexual assaults and rapes are just scorned women who enjoyed the sex in the moment but later was somehow angered by the guy so there they go taking revenge" etc. etc.
It's just crazy how many sexually predatory men I notice everyday, you know.
In my country, marital rape is still not a criminal offence. Recently a feminist YouTube channel did a community post highlighting how it's still rape if you force your wife against her will. And I kid you not, the comments under the post were terrifying. I am drafting an article clubbing those comments. But yeah, "You can't control your basic urges" was one of the comments, to which I replied, "Exactly. You can't control your basic urges of not getting violated." And the reply was so abusive that it was deleted by the moderator.
Just half an hour ago I saw a news where a famous player in our country was booked by police for having sex with a now 22 year old girl for the last 5 years, calling her his girlfriend, promising her marriage, but now refused to marry and threatened to leak her naked and compromised photos online if she and her family again ask for the promised marriage. Guys are shouting in the comment section saying that was not rape, the man is innocent, the girl is ruining his career. Our country is conservative, in most of the places, the girls who have premarital sex are outcast by the society and random men start harassing them asking for sexual favors or trying to rape them, many girls are even killed by their families if they have sex before marriage, many such girl are compelled to commit suicide. Given this context, the girl only agreed to sleep with him because he promised her marriage. Now as he is backing out, that was rape. He should be punished. But most men who are shouting are manipulators themselves. They do exactly these things, and later blame/threaten the women.
I have had college seniors and married work colleagues flirting with me, touching me unnecessarily, having overtly sexual conversation with no context. Many of my friends were trapped by many such guys in early days of school and college, some even got pregnant, had to have abortion, they learnt the hard way. Luckily or unluckily I was hardened from a very early age due to a childhood abuse and some subsequent family problems, so I have always been able to avoid such guys. But that has earned me the reputation of being rude or weird, which doesn't bother me much because I know the consequence of being gullible.
Just right now, while I am still writing this comment, a message of a college senior popped up in my screen. He is writing some bs in our college group. And I remember him boasting about his body counts very recently. His friends were counting the different nationalities of the women he slept with, and showing those as badges of honor. But I also remember another conversation with him. When I was new in the city a few years back looking for shared rentals, he warned me against living in a certain locality. Why? Because that's a liberal locality and women there sometimes take men home for sex. Working women. And the word he used for them is characterless women. And I am sure neither he, nor most people around us would notice his double standard. Because this is the norm here. Men sleeping around are studs, women sleeping around are sluts.
So if you start counting, you could point out at least 15-16 such predatory guys around you, almost all of them deemed completely normal by the society. Nothing will change if we don't change our notions as a whole. We should not, btw, free the men from the responsibility and accountability if they they do something to women, society being bad is not an excuse of anyone taking away another’s human rights. But we should also actively work to change the culture, because without that, such crimes will just keep on happening at every level, and many people would just keep on letting those men go free because if 60–70% men do such things, how many could they possibly accuse?