I misread "rather then an" as "rather an".
That said, the definition I see most often used is something along the lines of this:
Taken from hereA complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself. A rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women as the norm . . . In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable . . . However . . . much of what we accept as inevitable is in fact the expression of values and attitudes that can change.
Which moves the line ever further towards blaming men. Which in turn leads to such things as
comparing men to poisoned M&Ms,
teach men not to rape,
the idea that men can't be raped and that concent is the sole responsibility of the male participant, and on and on and on...
I wouldn't be so annoying about this if this retoric didn't have real world consequences, such as the erosion of due process in universities where the simple accusation is enough to brand you for life, regardless if you can 100% prove you are innocent. Hell, things have gone so bonkers that simply resembling the rapist is enough to
expel you from campus.
Outside universities, the accusation is enough to leave you unemployed and a social pariah, no matter how the case goes. Making a statement denying the charges is seen by some (admittedly more hard-line elements) to be
almost a crime in of itself.
So my mistake aside, sorry for not having doubts regarding how rape culture is widely used for demonizing and
implying that men and only men are either rapists or accessories to rape.The saddest thing here is, if in every one of the examples I gave, it was the fictional movement Ghostavism and instead of men it was jews or black people, I doubt we would be having this discussion. We would see it for the bigotry that it is, even if it is for a good cause at its core (to stop rape).
P.S.
While not directly related, I don't think I can be very impartial to this subject, when I keep hearing stuff about opposition by you know who to laws remedying stuff like
this.
