Foreign Research

2. WHAT IS
RAPE CULTURE?
• Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual
violence is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture.
• Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the
objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence,
thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety.

3. • Blaming the victim (“She asked for it!”)
• Trivializing sexual assault (“Boys will be boys!”)
• Sexually explicit jokes
• Tolerance of sexual harassment
• Inflating false rape report statistics
• Publicly scrutinizing a victim’s dress, mental state, motives, and history
• Gratuitous gendered violence in movies and television
• Defining “manhood” as dominant and sexually aggressive
• Defining “womanhood” as submissive and sexually passive
• Pressure on men to “score”
• Pressure on women to not appear “cold”
• Assuming only promiscuous women get raped
• Assuming that men don’t get raped or that only “weak” men get raped
• Refusing to take rape accusations seriously
• Teaching women to avoid getting raped

4. is the phenomenon in which a victim of a crime is partially or entirely attributed
as responsible for the transgressions committed against them. For instance, a
victim of a crime (in this case rape or sexual assault), is asked questions by the
police, in an emergency room, or in a court room, that suggest that the victim was
doing something, acting a certain way, or wearing clothes that may have provoked
the perpetrator, therefore making the transgressions against the victim her or his
own fault.
VICTIM BLAMING

5. STANFORDRAPE CASE
A California judge, Aaron Persky, decided to give former Stanford
University swimmer Brock Turner a six-month jail sentence for
raping an unconscious woman has caused a national uproar.
- A longer jail sentence might have “a severe impact” and “adverse collateral
consequences” on Turner.
Sexual-assault advocates pointed to the Stanford case as a prime example for why
so many women choose not to report sexual assaults to police or press charges
against their rapists and testify against them.

7. Men are also victims of rape culture
• The National Crime Victimization Survey questioned 40,000
U.S. households and revealed that 38% of rapes and sexual
violence committed were against men.
• FBI didn’t even consider men as victims in their
definition of rape until in 2012
According to the 2013 Department of Defense and Sexual Assault
Prevention and Response Office Annual Report on Sexual
Assault, about 54% of military sexual trauma victims in 2013 were
men, which means there were about 14,000 male victims.
An estimated 81% of them never disclose their assault to officials
to avoid the stigma associated of being raped.

8. HOW TO END RAPE CULTURE
• Name the real problems
• Re-imagine masculinity
• Get media literate
• Globalize awareness of rape culture
• Don’t laugh at rape
• Tell your story

9. https://www.southernct.edu/sexual-
misconduct/facts.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture#Vi
ctim_blaming_and_slut_shaming
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/06/3
784952/letter-victim-blaming-turner/
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/how-rape-
culture-victimizes-men/
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/street-
harassment-catcalling-rape-culture-
476#axzz4EOP5A72O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_harassm
ent
https://prezi.com/wpgqf2hcrchc/the-
influence-of-catcalling-on-rape-culture/
https://www.thenation.com/article/ten-things-
end-rape-culture/