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Ten Things to End Rape Culture

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" Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. Here's how to empower men and women to change the status quo."

1. Name the real problems

2. Re-examine and re-imagine masculinity

3. Get enthusiastic about enthusiastic consent.

4. Speak up for what you really really want.  

5. Get media literate.

6. Globalize your awareness of rape culture.

7. Know your history

8. Take an intersectional approach.

9. Practice real politics.

10. Lobby your community.

(The full details on this list can be found at http://www.thenation.com/article/172643/ten-things-end-rape-culture )

The Power of Language: "Legitimate Rape" and Efforts to Change the Definition of Rape

"Shortly following the senator’s debacle, then-Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan insinuated that rape was simply another form of conception in an interview in which he was asked to comment on Aikin’s comments. So here’s the important context to their public comments: both Ryan and Aikin have been proponents of trying to change the language that legally defines rape in an effort to make it illegal for women to have access to abortion, even in cases of rape or incest."Here's more from The Gander Press

Steubenville, Ohio, Gang Rape

cody_saltman instagram https://randazza.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/steubenville-ohio-gang-rape-defamation-suit-against-anonymous-defendants/

By forwomen.org

by Ms. Congeniality

"What did they expect" Fox News contributor blames victim.

Liz Trotta a fox new contributor made a ridiculous statement about women in the military, she said. "I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it's strictly been a question of pressure from the feminists."

The Hunting Ground

Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino Made a documentary called "The Hunting Ground" about rape on college campuses, and how some colleges choose to protect the college rather than the victims, they use title nine to help rape victims to get the education they deserve,”Not only is sexual assault an expected part of the college experience, the filmmakers assert, once it happens victims generally discover that no officials at their schools will take action or even care. These callous, indifferent administrators coddle perpetrators and systematically cover up heinous crimes in an effort to maintain their school’s good—if false—reputation. Occidental College assistant professor of sociology and activist Danielle Dirks says, “Schools are actively and aggressively not wanting to tell the truth about what is going on on their campuses.” (More on The Hunting Ground Here) By Emily Yoffe

The Rape Culture

posted by Jennifer Norris

Stop Rape

Wasi Daniju from Ceasefire, express the relationship between women and the media by saying.  "How can there be any justification in downplaying this woman’s violation to something that is made to sound more akin to a casual fling, a sexual encounter in which the woman involved had just as much say as the men?  That is, a vulnerable female detainee is presented as having had a choice in the matter of engaging in this act of sex with the two men, staff involved in her detainment, who abused her (abusing their position of power over her at the same time).  Are the Standard and BBC really suggesting that she had any element of consent?  Because that is certainly how their headline and description read." (More information of Wasi Daniju work)