If you’re wearing a short skirt, get drunk and pass out at a guy’s house, don’t complain when this happens to you:
“Real men treat women with respect.” That’s the message that people, men included, have been trying to scream over the loud cries of “she deserved it,” ever since the rapists in the Steubenville case were found guilty (and long before that).The defense attorney representing the rapists tried to make it her fault because she chose to drink to excess and did not specifically say “no;” members of the media lamented the ruined lives of two promising young athletes and said she needed to look at her own role in the incident; and Buzzfeedcompiled a list of 23 posts, messages and tweets blaming the girl for what happened to her.That the young man above even needed to make a video demonstrating how he would treat an unconscious woman is a deeply sad statement about America and rape culture. Still, it’s definitely a message worth paying very close attention to as it’s entirely too common for our society to blame a rape victim for being raped.
i think that right wing push back against VAWA was partially do to their own opropensity to rape and take advantage of women and the other males trying to defend the acts, why IMO it might be them or their kin that get caught next time. just sayin
There are two main facets of rape culture. The first is that the victim is to blame for the crime. Usually a woman, people will say, as they have said in the Steubenville case, shouldn’t have dressed a certain way, behaved a certain way, gotten drunk, gone out alone, walked down an alley, etc. You name it, she shouldn’t have done it, because not doing it would have prevented her from being raped.It’s so bad that a female judge in Arizona blamed a woman for a police officer groping her under her skirt in a bar. Judge Jacqueline Hatch, after ruling that DPS Officer Robb Evans was guilty of sexual abuse, told the victim, “If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you.” She then went on to tell the victim that she hoped she learned a lesson about friendship and vulnerability, and that blaming others takes away a person’s power to change.
as one who respects women despite my experience under my mothers rule as deplorable as those assumptions are there is a truth and responsibility that is real. given the fact that this is being talked about here and thousands of other places in the world, IMO the woman does have a self responsibility to not dress a certain way or carry herself in a provocative way,why, because these predator's are out there and these things while not the reason serve as the catalyst for those predisposed and on the fence to bring it to mind.
much like white supremist with their swaztakas in the inner city neighborhoods or a Blavck being Black in their's, it's things in life you just don't do not becuse you can't or shouldn't but because of the socirety as it is presents a real threat if you do, free country nah.
