Rape Culture in the United States Improperly blames Women for their Sexual Violation

Firstly I'd like to offer context on why I find your rebuttals to the videos incorrect 1.In politics the term "getting raped" is not interchangeable with words like exploration because politics is not general discussion with friends. It is a eloquent description of your points through rhetorical techniques, pathos, logos, and ethos, sources and speaking skills. It is not a bar or video game lobby where people don't care what you say or how you say it. For these reasons I hold politics and debates in higher regard and thus have the expectation that slang should not be used in Journalism and politics. However the fact that his example shows how the public has become so desensitized to the word rape that they forget its true meaning and thus allow slang to be used in journalism. I am well aware that they are not attempting to perpetuate rape but the mere notion of using a word that means the sexual exploitation of a women as perfectly acceptable analogy is in my opinion is part of rape culture. 2. The second video is not about whether Bill Cosby is guilty of raping anyone or about blaming the victim completely for the crime perpetrated it is about the idea that it is socially acceptable to ask a women why, after being drugged by a man that she trusted did not bite his penis off. If you were to phrase that question to another crime to a mugging victim and say ask " hey you were drugged got mugged by the person that is employing you why did you not fight back". Not only would that question never happen but if it did it would be socially unacceptable. But rape culture grants a exception to rape and instead allows a margin were the victim could have done this that simply doesn't exist in other types of crimes. This is another faucet of rape culture. 3.The third video is not about whether they are register sex offenders which they now are or whether internet comments support the women that has been made a victim. It is about the fact that their is sympathy for the perpetrators of a heinous crime that have been convicted with definitive proof can e felt bad for because their just boys that didn't know what they wee doing. Do you really think that they would have been extended the same sympathy if they had the same irrefutable evidence for murder? Yet because of the crime being rape it is somehow at least partially the women's fault because her clothes or her behavior "made" the men do this heinous crime. This unfounded sympathy is yet another faucet of rape culture. 4. This map is to show how elected officials are misinformed and down right stupid on the case of rape. For as you have probably heard rape is rape their is no god given rape, their is no legitimate rape, nor any of the other examples that these officials use.Although I'm glad you think that these people are idiots these idiots are in charge of policy making of the entire country so unless I'm mistaken that means that their constituents to a certain degree agree with them. So to say that rape culture doesn't exist when it exists at the highest level of government is wrong no matter how you put it. Now lets move on to your rebuttals 1.In this you correctly assert that I do not think the media or courts ever fully blame victim. However you incorrectly assert on my opinion on questions to rape victims. I say again I have no problem with the police asking what the victim was wearing or how she was acting, they are conducting a criminal investigation an have the right to ask such questions. However I do not believe that lawyers or the judge has the right to ask why the women did not fight back not only is this wrong but recently has been made illegal under the "Rape Shield Law" that prevents cross examination of a victims past sexual behavior . However in my opinion this law does not go far enough and does not protect against cross examination of why a victim did not fight back, a examination that is forbidden other crimes. For evenif you don't think being asked why you didn't fight back proves nothing and only perpetuates blaming the victim for at least a portion of the crime. However, that dos not happen in muggings with rape and sexual assault being the only types of cases where this type of victim blaming is admissible in a court of law. This to sum it up is merely another faucet of rape culture. http://www.legalmatch.com... 2. Media do not imply it is the women's fault entirely but they do imply that the situation may have been avoided if the victim took certain steps. This type of critique would not happen if the person got murdered or if they got mugged but are questioned in cases of rape. Also if you think its acceptable for rape to be a obvious inevitability if a women does not cover up ad not reveal her body in any way then we have more than rape culture we have a society as backwards as Iran. Thankfully these pundits are not quite as backward as you make them seem in your sentence "I can see how they can give the impression like "what did you expect" but they know that rapists are bad people and they know nobody deserves to be raped, so at the very most they're kind of saying "duh," considering the type of clothing the girl is wearing can be very provocative and can be known to attract people that are willing to do horrible things like rape". I have never asserted that a judge has given a lesser ruling to a rapist. However, our society does tend to partially blame the women at least partially or if not blame ask why women didn't do more to prevent it which is exactly what your 2. rebuttal is. Thus whether you like it or not you just incidentally perpetrated a faucet of rape culture by saying the victim could have done more to prevent the crime. 3.You are correct that i cannot replace death with rape in the context that you are using. However, i'm using the rape analogy to murder to show how rape is treated differently to other crimes and how a victim of rape can be blamed that they didn't fight back or wore provocative clothes. I have yet to see a murder or mugging case where this victim blaming has happened to the extent that rape can so I would challenge you to find a murder or mugging reported in which the victim could have done more to prevent it rather than offering sympathy and evidence to the case. This special treatment of rape in he media is rape culture. 4. I already addressed in my number 1. for this argument on how I think courts should deal with rape I never made the claim that woman's clothing affects a ruling but it does affect the questioning process in a court of law. 5.For the forms that are so subtle it can not be noticed in my opinion the most dangerous of discrimination for things like slavery and segregation was not seen as discrimination but instead as normal societal norms. This is the same in respect to rape culture wear the examples that I have given above that is done by the media is not deeply ingrained in the typical American psyche as acceptable that it often escapes noticed. That is what I think rape culture is dangerous because it is not the most obvious form of discrimination but it is still prevalent. 6.If you really think that Men and women are equal in America you are completely wrong. Women still earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns they are more likely to be a victim of sexual crime and has their rights over their own body questioned even now. So to say that women are equal in America is a farce that hides the real problems that still plague American society. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org... 7.Though it is true that not everyone accepts this behavior I recommend that you ask any girl gamer on how much they have been verbally abused the world that you envision where equality is unrealistic is a pessimistic view for as the Dalai Lama said "we will never make peace with the outer world until we make peace with ourselves" and no more words