Meaning of rape culture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.
   countable, uncountable
2. The cultivation (growing or production) of rape.
   uncountable

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Examples

“By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin⟳ to break⟳ down the myths that support⟳ the rape culture.”

“In a rape culture both men and women assume⟳ that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes.”

“To prevent⟳ further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need⟳ to understand⟳ what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute⟳ to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses.”

“Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent. Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge⟳ to rip open⟳ her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull⟳ her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.”

“Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have⟳ accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take⟳ down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault.”

“Or "I wrote on rape culture my junior year at Brown / So I'm allowed to say⟳ what all his raps are about"”

“We have⟳ started to demystify Neruda now, because we have⟳ only recently begun to question⟳ rape culture.”

“In Flanders, where rape culture is practised upon the most extensive and economical scale, the stubble is ploughed twice […]”

“It may be added, as a final recommendation of rape culture, that this plant⟳ is valuable for its yield⟳ of honey.”

“The progress⟳ in rape culture in this country is one of the marvels of latter day husbandry.”

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