Saturday, March 25, 2017

Rape won't stop in a rape culture.

March 25, 2017

This is a picture of what the phone screen looked like when I was reading a Washington Post article about sexual assault:



The person who wrote the article has no control over the ads; ads that degrade women are everywhere.  

This is a picture of the first part of the "USA Post" page advertised by the "Video":


 


You can't stop rape in a rape culture that brainwashes women into consenting to be degraded, that attacks women who refuse to consent, and that does everything that it can think of to construe a victim's actions as consent rather than to acknowledge that a victim's discussion of her actions could be as valid as the many theories purported by those who WEREN'T at the scene of the crime and who want to portray her as a false accuser.  

What if colleges and universities could be sued by student rapists and their families, for failing to provide environments which discourage a "boys will be boys" attitude about sexual assault?  Would that stop the victim-blaming and prompt school administrations to be responsible for what happens at their schools?  

Rather than accuse victims of ruining their attackers' futures by talking about what happened, and rather than excuse sexual assault by saying that to punish it is tragic for the attackers, why not acknowledge that failing to educate young men about their sexual responsibilities does ruin their futures?  


This is the address for the Washington Post article:







Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 25, 2017 @ 3:05 p.m./No code, all policies operative, all the time.  I'll publish my preliminary page and similar pages again.