Ronald Nand said:
infohippie said:
Yan007 said:
Rape culture: The idea that we live in a rape culture is ridiculous. In a society where male students will be expelled immediately and found guilty until proven innocent, there is no such thing as a rape culture.
Definitely this. I hate this stupid term so much. No, we do not live in a "rape culture". Some highly tribal parts of central Asia?
That's a rape culture. A first world western country? No it's fucking not, stop being so stupid.
While I wholeheartedly beleive we don't live in a rape culture, when you read stories about victims being silenced and punished while perpetrators are protected at all costs by authorities (stuff like high schools protecting football players), it gets hard to still beleive we don't live in a rape culture. While victims are shamed and perpetrators are protected, its hard to fault that some parts of rape culture are still seeped into our society, we may not be living in a rape culture but I think aspects of it are in our society.
Yeah, but that isn't what you'd call a
rape culture, because a
rape culture is one in which rape is totally acceptable on a societal level, but it's absolutely not in the west. I'd argue that a lot Arab culture nations have a
rape culture, because when a woman needs 5 eyewitnesses to prove rape, you know she's never gonna get a fair shake. Victim shaming, and protecting the perpetrators is usually a symptom of having really screwed up priorities, like when a girl accuses the local football star of raping her, and gets silenced, especially when it's proven it happened. That's not
rape culture, what it is having fucked up priorities, and it needs to stop.