Post 7

http://www.mommyish.com/2013/03/19/steubenville-rape-victim-death-threats/

Post 4

• Rape culture is when women who come forward are questioned about what they were wearing.
• Rape culture is when survivors who come forward are asked, “Were you drinking?”
• Rape culture is when people say, “she was asking for it.”
• Rape culture is when we teach women how to not get raped, instead of teaching men not to rape.
• Rape culture is when the lyrics of Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ mirror the words of actual rapists and is still the number one song in the country.
• Rape culture is when the mainstream mediamourns the end of the convicted Steubenville rapists’ football careers and does not mention the young girl who was victimized.
• Rape culture is when cyberbullies take pictures of sexual assaults and harass their victims online after the fact, which in the cases ofAudrie Pott and Rehtaeh Parsons tragically ended in their suicides.
• Rape culture is when, in 31 states, rapists canlegally sue for child custody if the rape results in pregnancy.
• Rape culture is when college campus advisers tasked with supporting the student body, shame survivors who report their rapes. (Annie Clark, a campus activist, says an administrator at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill told her when she reported her rape, “Well… Rape is like football, if you look back on the game, and you’re the quarterback, Annie… is there anything you would have done differently?”)
• Rape culture is when colleges are more concerned with getting sued by assailants than in supporting survivors. (Or at Occidental College, where students and administrators who advocated for survivors were terrorized for speaking out against the school’s insufficient reporting procedures.

I would be really interested to see the commentary/response to this article.

http://time.com/40110/rape-culture-is-real/

Post 3

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/20/opinion/hill-bill-cosby-case-rape-culture/

Post 2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-students-challenge-rolling-stone-account-of-attack/2014/12/10/ef345e42-7fcb-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html

Another response to the UVA story listed in my archives. Why is rape so controversial? How does this incident further rape culture, or argue against it? How does it affect people’s public opinion of rape culture?

Post 1

Obviously the video is about language and rape culture, but I feel that the video is not complete without the public commentary. If you scroll through the comments you will see several instances of men and women stating that rape culture does not exist. These commentaries offer more insight than the video alone.