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

OK so what I'm planning on doing in this section of the debate is offering a rebuttal for each of your points for the parts of the sections I do not agree with. 1. It is not necessarily fully blaming the victim in any courtroom or media but their are ridiculous questions or assumptions that are made because of the rape being treated differently to other crimes. For instance in the CNN interview I listed the man didn't really follow the details of the women's predicament such as the fact that she was drugged and vulnerable young women but instead asked why she didn't bit the persons penis off. I can not imagine this type of questions even enter a persons mind in any other media. For instance can you think of a mugging victim who was asked why he didn't fight back even if they were severely handicapped in someway. Another example was in another CNN report that I sited in my previous argument were a report felt bad for boys that had been convicted of rape. I find it hard to believe that the same type of sympathy would be handed down to a murder or child molester but because the women is partially at fault they feel bad for the "boys" who were just slaves to their emotions. This is what I see as rape culture in America were people find ways to at least partially blame the women for this horrific crime. 2. I believe you mistake my opinion for I have no problem that police question what the victim was wearing because it is part of a criminal investigation. However, I do have a problem with people on thought talks and media coverage that in anyway imply it is the victims fault they were raped. I don't care what she was wearing or how she was acting but rape is never ever the victims fault. It is equivocal to saying well you were mugged because you were wearing a suit or well the kid didn't fight back when he was being rapped so they wanted it. Yet this type of questioning is acceptable to bring up in a court of law as "evidence" and is often used as topics of debate on talk shows. This disgusts me and it is done in no other court of law. For instance it would be as if the defense attorney for the person who mugged you asked what clothes you were wearing because it was somehow your fault for being mugged because you were wearing "thug like" clothes. This would be unacceptable in a court of law for nearly ever instance except for rape and other forms of female victimization. 3. The first section of your part 3 of rape culture analyse I disproved in my part 2 of rape culture but your second part some what scares me. In your two scenarios you just described scare me for first of all your description that it is in some way is the women's fault just offends me for if I replace the word rape with murder your example would sound ridiculous. Yet because of rape culture it is somehow a women's fault when she goes out to have fun and ends up being raped by someone. To even think that it as the women's fault is ridiculous. Although it is possible that a women could have taken steps to avoid being raped so could a murder victim but you don't see any defense attorney or media pundit saying " well if he was not wearing a suit he wouldn't of been mugged" . This is exactly what rape culture is of the treatment of rape as a crime apart for although it is possible that if you looked less conspicuous you wouldn't have been mugged is a feasible argument it does not make its way into the court room be cause it blames the victim. However, and exception is rued for women because of the misogynistic traditions of America that have slowly abated but still have yet to leave America. I am also annoyed at the idea that your saying that women need to avoid rape because its strategy clearly are not working. Over 25% of women are sexually abuse in their lives and unless every single one of them was asking for it has to be more than just a problem that women have to deal with so if changing encouraging respectful treatment of women is to much for you I strongly recommend you tell that to your mother or any women you have in your life. Sure their will always be rape but is it not time in America that we stop blaming the victim and instead focus on prevention and education to hopefully reduce the percentage of women who have been sexually assaulted in their lives. 4. I already addressed the fact that I have no problem with police asking what the victim was wearing it is normal procedure. However, I am against having that be admissible in a court of law as it being the women's outfit was revealing thus it was not the mans fault. Yes I do know that this does not happen in courts but it might as well happening the powerful "court of opinion that the media is in charge of. For the second we blame women for a crime committed against them we are just as backward as countries like Iran that stone women to death for being rapped because it was her fault ( once again I realize this is hyperbole). If you don't believe me Google it. 5.Misogyny encompasses many different types of female hat including forms so subtle it can not be noticed. This is what I believe rape culture is, a traditional of blame directed toward females that has not been changed despite its sexist background and detriment toward the health of the female psyche. 6.In relation to your thoughts that anti-male feminism as a majority I strongly disagree and I recommend you read Emma Watson's eloquent address to the United Nation on what feminism is for she can explain it more eloquently than I ever could. 6. I am happy you do not actively support misogyny but the point I made about the word rape being embedded as other words like "gay" and "faggot" that are used with such ease you wounder why our society is acceptable of such guttural language.And while I have played plenty of video games and know exactly the type of language people you use and I would disagree that next to no one uses the word rape literally. For when I play with my female friends on video games they are often verbally abused by the chauvinistic behavior that you just said was so rare. It is also the reason why I had to brief my sister heavily on what people are like in the gaming world and while I love video games I find a large majority of the community desensitized to the words they use another part of what I consider rape culture. Also Battlefield is way better than call of duty but that is a debate for another time 7. Finally I'm curious on what unrealistic feminism utopia you think I plan to create Conclusion. while no one actively promotes rape publicly rape is treated very differently by both the media and courts of America. This treatment is because of rape culture which creates a victim blaming environment that no one deserves.