{"id":348,"date":"2017-02-24T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:55:50","slug":"rape-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/education-prevention\/rape-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James is dead\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op14XhETfBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><script type=\"application\/json\" data-arve-oembed>{\"title\":\"James is dead\",\"author_name\":\"Blue Seat Studios\",\"author_url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@blueseatstudios6366\",\"type\":\"video\",\"height\":\"281\",\"width\":\"500\",\"version\":\"1.0\",\"provider_name\":\"YouTube\",\"provider_url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\",\"thumbnail_height\":\"360\",\"thumbnail_width\":\"480\",\"thumbnail_url\":\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Op14XhETfBw\/hqdefault.jpg\",\"html\":\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;281&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op14XhETfBw?feature=oembed&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen title=&quot;James is dead&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\",\"arve_cachetime\":\"2024-06-26 02:12:19\",\"arve_url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Op14XhETfBw\",\"arve_srcset\":\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Op14XhETfBw\/mqdefault.jpg 320w, https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Op14XhETfBw\/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Op14XhETfBw\/sddefault.jpg 640w, https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Op14XhETfBw\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\"}<\/script><br \/>\nRape culture is a term coined in the\u00a01970s designed to show the ways\u00a0in which society blames victims of sexual assault and normalizes male sexual violence. It allows us to live in a society where it is acceptable to teach sexualized violence prevention as \u201cdon\u2019t get raped\u201d instead of \u201cdon\u2019t rape\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/files\/rapeculture2-e1383261747241.jpg\" alt=\"We live in a society that teaches - DON'T GET RAPED instead of DON'T RAPE.\" width=\"254\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignright wp-image-349 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/files\/rapeculture2-e1383261747241.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/files\/rapeculture2-e1383261747241-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/files\/rapeculture2-e1383261747241-110x200.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/sexualviolence\/files\/rapeculture2-e1383261747241-250x453.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>Emilie Buchwald,\u00a0<em>author of\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Transforming-Rape-Culture-Emilie-Buchwald\/dp\/1571312048\"><em>Transforming a Rape Culture<\/em><\/a><\/span><em>,<\/em>\u00a0describes\u00a0that when society normalizes sexualized violence, it\u00a0accepts and creates rape culture. In her book she defines rape culture as a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and\u00a0supports violence against women. It is a society where violence is\u00a0seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women\u00a0perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from\u00a0sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself. In a rape culture both men and women assume that\u00a0sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable. However, much\u00a0of what we accept as inevitable is in fact the expression of values\u00a0and attitudes that can change.<\/p>\n<p>Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual\u00a0coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as \u201cjust the way things are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Rape culture is not even talking about the reality that many women are sexually assaulted multiple times in their lives. Rape culture is the way in which the constant threat of sexual assault affects women\u2019s daily movements. Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how you wear it, how you carry yourself, where you walk, when you walk there, with whom you walk, whom you trust, what you do, where you do it, with whom you do it, what you drink, how much you drink, whether you make eye contact, if you\u2019re alone, if you\u2019re with a stranger, if you\u2019re in a group, if you\u2019re in a group of strangers, if it\u2019s dark, if the area is unfamiliar, if you\u2019re carrying something, how you carry it, what kind of shoes you\u2019re wearing in case you have to run, what kind of purse you carry, what jewelry you wear, what time it is, what street it is, what environment it is, how many people you sleep with, what kind of people you sleep with, who your friends are, to whom you give your number, who\u2019s around when the delivery guy comes, to get an apartment where you can see who\u2019s at the door before they can see you, to check before you open the door to the delivery guy, to own a dog or a dog-sound-making machine, to get a roommate, to take self-defense, to always be alert always pay attention always watch your back always be aware of your surroundings and never let your guard down for a moment lest you be sexually assaulted and if you are and didn\u2019t follow all the rules <em>it\u2019s your fault<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rape culture is victim-blaming. Rape culture is a judge blaming a woman for her own rape. Rape culture is a minister blaming his child victims. Rape culture is accusing a child of enjoying being held hostage, raped, and tortured. Rape culture is spending enormous amounts of time finding any reason at all that a victim can be blamed for their own rape.<\/p>\n<h2>Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women \u2013 It\u2019s a Man\u2019s Issue<\/h2>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"ted\" id=\"arve-ted-1753\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.250000%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-ted-1753\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/1753\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"506.25\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/1753\" title=\"\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.brandonu.ca\\\/sexualviolence\\\/education-prevention\\\/rape-culture\\\/#arve-ted-1753\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/embed.ted.com\\\/talks\\\/1753\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rape culture is a term coined in the\u00a01970s designed to show the ways\u00a0in which society blames victims of sexual assault and normalizes male sexual violence. It allows us to live in a society where it is acceptable to teach sexualized violence prevention as \u201cdon\u2019t get raped\u201d instead of \u201cdon\u2019t rape\u201d. 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