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I don't think the "rape culture" exists. CMV

By the "rape culture," I mean that I don't believe that people either encourage rape implicitly or do they blame the victim as much as people make it out. My entire argument for this not existing is that I've never seen it, so naturally my view could easily be changed.


A lot of people seem to talk about a male dominated culture and I'm not seeing it. Now, I could totally be biased because I've never been in a position where I'm not seeing the bias. But I can't even think of an example where someone may be implicitly encouraging rape that I would consider realistic.


Also, I apologize if there is already a similar thing to this. I looked in the wiki and nothing was there.
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News media often blames victims for their rape, such as in the case of the Cleveland, TX gang rape in 2011. An 11-year-old girl was raped by a group of 18 men, and yet, the author of an article in the New York Times felt the need to question the girl’s choice in clothing. “Residents in the neighborhood…. said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.” This is rape culture: a world in which the New York Times publishes a statement insinuating that the gang rape of a child was due to that child’s behavior, and not due to the behavior of the rapists in question. 


Another example of a problematic response to rape is Dan Rottenburg’s “What Should Women Do?” in the Broad Street Review last June. Dan’s premise is that, because Lara Logan has worn shirts that reveal her cleavage in the past, she did not take the proper precautions against getting raped while she was reporting overseas. He goes on to discuss the ramifications of wearing sexy clothing and being a sexual person: “Earth to liberated women: When you display legs, thighs or cleavage, some liberated men will see it as a sign that you feel good about yourself and your sexuality. But most men will see it as a sign that you want to get laid.” This idea that a woman who is sexual is asking for rape, or that a woman who enjoys her sexuality wants to be raped, is maddeningly pervasive.