"Rape culture is…⠀ …the existence of “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot” t-shirts. They really, seriously exist.⠀ …the media’s constant glossing-over of sexual assault with euphemistic language: “inappropriate behaviour,” “sexual misconduct,” and even plain old “having sex.”⠀ …Facebook’s refusal to pull sadistically graphic images of violence against women (while deeming photos of breastfeeding moms to be objectionable)!⠀ …a beauty website that calls toddlers “effing hot” – even the preschool set can’t escape objectification!⠀ …a magazine editor’s blasé admission that “the women we feature in the magazine are ornamental” and “objectified.”⠀ …major news outlets waxing sympathetic about how two teen rapists’ “promising” lives will be destroyed by a youthful mistake, without once mentioning how the rape might affect the survivor.⠀ …kids who call losing a sports game “getting totally raped.”⠀ …a pizza marketing campaign that makes a joke out of rape.⠀ …a subculture of self-proclaimed “ratters” who hack into women’s computers and steal their photos.⠀ …college women being instructed to vomit or urinate on demand to protect themselves against rape.⠀ …10,000 untested rape kits collecting dust on a shelf somewhere.⠀ …and sadly, a lot of other soul-destroying nonsense you’ll be forced to wade through every single day of your life.⠀ But here’s the thing. If, as Emilie Buchwald suggests, the normalization of sexualized violence has “saturated every corner of our culture so thoroughly that people can’t easily wrap their heads around what rape culture actually is,” then we need to take care not to let ourselves or the people around us become desensitized. We need to notice this stuff, get outraged, and share our outrage with others. Staying aware of rape culture is painful work, but we can’t interrupt the culture of violence unless we are willing to see it for what it is." - Alana Prochuk for WAVAW read more here http://bit.ly/2mDMBAv⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #rapeculture #30daysofSAAM #wavaw #nomeansno #stoprapeeducate #notmypresident #resist #consent
