Part One

Rape Culture:

Question #1: What is rape culture?

- Rape is normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality.
- Behaviors within rape culture include: victim blaming, slut-shaming, sexual
objectification, denial or rape and more.
- Rape culture is detrimental to both women and men.
- Rape culture isn't a crime of passion — it is a detrimental cultural issue
stemming from systematically socialized gender norms.
- People like to write it off as a crime of passion or a drunken mistake, which is
not acceptable.
- Lack of regard for victims human rights
- To make accountability the norm after gender violence in the United States,
we need to change tactics, says victims' rights attorney and TED Fellow Laura
L. Dunn. Instead of going institution by institution, fighting for reform, we
need to go to the Constitution and finally pass the Equal Rights Amendment,
which would require states to address gender inequality and violence.
- Negative and traumatic life event.
- Sexual aggression can have something to do with biological factors and how
aggressive a person already is.
Question #2: Why is it so prevalent in the US?
- One in 16 American women were forced or coerced into their first sexual
experience
- More than 3 million American women, this suggests, lost their virginity
because they were raped
- Rape at a young age appears to be acciated with mental health later on in life.
- Rape culture is endemic in America; as one sex education specialist told the
Associated Press in reference to the report, “Our culture teaches people not
to be raped instead of teaching people not to rape.
- Rape culture is so prevalent because society refuses that it exists. It is often
ignored or not seen as serious as it is, rape culture intensifies throughout
society.
- Rape Culture is such a large issue in our country, esspecially with accusation
all over the media.
- Sexual violence without any accountability in institutions.
 - Sexual violence occurs in cultures that fosotor male supuriority.
- According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of registered
rape cases in India increased by 873.3% from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in
2011.
- There are many theoretical frameworks to suggest why it may be so
prevalent in some countries.
Question #3: What does rape culture look like in college?
- 35 out of every 1,000 women attending college will be raped
- Culture of socialized gender norms.
- If our culture and colleges are able to accurately define rape and create
values that foster accountability we will be able to deconstruct rape culture
- “Boys will be boys,” not good!
- Holding people accountable is key.
- Sexual assault is a ​serious​ ​and complex issue on college campuses, and ASU is
no exception. ​1.2 percent​ of male students and ​3.1 percent​ of female students
at ASU have been reported to have experienced either attempted or
completed sexual assault.
- Students have rallied against sexual assault on many campusus.
- Social and cultural inferiority of women.
- Culture is one of many factors.
Question #4: The history of rape culture.
- Culture of masculinity.
- Evolutionary: Rape can be viewed as itself adaptive or the by-product of
other characteristics that are. If adaptive, it can be regarded as conditional in
that it either applies only to certain individuals, or to certain circumstances.
- One explanation sees human rape as a facultative male reproductive tactic.
The other explanation sees human rape as an evolutionary byproduct of
certain evolved differences in the reproductive strategies of human males
and females. These two explanations generate alternative testable
predictions concerning cross-species, cross-cultural, and modern societal
data on rape.
- To show one's power, especially with a spouse.