High school students school us about rape culture....

[Little Star]

YES the USA does have a rape culture.

Salon
Apr 11, 2013
By Mary Elizabeth Williams

A California high school addresses rape culture head-on -- and succeeds where ABC, CNN and other media outlets fail

The “Rape Culture” issue isn’t easy to look at. Its cover is an image of a young girl, her face obscured but her arms and neck and lower face covered in slurs. “Attention whore.” “Drunk.” “Asking for it.” Inside, student Lisie Sabbag writes about a senior’s sexual assault. “Despite her earlier protests,” the girl was “too drunk to object,” she writes. After filing a police report, she became the object of a “barrage of Facebook messages and Tumblr posts telling her that she was just looking for attention.” Sabbag also talks to another student who reveals a community in which boys are pressured to take advantage. “They would say, ‘Oh you didn’t want to have sex with her because she’s drunk? You’re such a fag.’” And she reveals that in a survey of the school’s students, over 25 percent agree that “If a woman willingly gets drunk and then gets raped, she is responsible for what happened to her.” Savannah Cordova, meanwhile, writes of listening to Spirit Week cheers that “blatantly bully and slut-shame” girls. “Stop trivializing rape,” she writes. “Stop making excuses.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/11/high_school_students_school_us_about_rape_culture/singleton/

And here's a quick google:
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[seabeyond]

1. maybe our kids can educate some of our adults on du. ya think? nt

[Little Star]

2. I've rec'd my own thread!!! It's that good!

[Helen Reddy]

11. Ya done good.

[Little Star]

13. Thanks...

[Brickbat]

3. K&R.

[MattBaggins]

4. "If a woman willingly gets drunk she is responsible"

OK this needs a good actual college level survey study.

If a man gets drunk at a party and is anally penetrated with an object is he responsible?
If a person gets drunk and is robbed at a party are they responsible?

Why is a woman getting raped while incapacitated the one crime where the victim is at fault?

[niyad]

5. because, to a large degree, this isn't just a rape culture, but a woman-hating one.

[redqueen]

10. Exactly. nt

[niyad]

6. k and r, and thank you for bringing this to our attention.

[chuckstevens]

7. Sick Beyond Belief

I'd like to ask the 25 % who think if a women is drunk, she asking for it, if that includes their mothers, aunts, sisters cousins, or girlfriends ? What the hell is wrong with so many people in this world?

[Little Star]

8. good question.

[redqueen]

9. K&R

Shameful that people on this site still haven't grasped this basic truth.

[Helen Reddy]

12. Oh,

they have grasped it alright. They just argue, misinform to get their own jollys.

[Starry Messenger]

14. k&r

[Luminous Animal]

15. K&R

[DarkLink]

16. This 'rape culture' has more to do with irresponsible adults, than these kids

Who is teaching this behavior?

Who is overlooking this behavior?

Look at this case coming up for trial, star football player implicated in rape by video, hospital and eyewitness accounts...is allowed to play football for one month without arrest, and then let out on very low bail, allowed to work a high paying job and still hasn't been held accountable...

The coaches, police, and administrators (some police/administrators are coaches) all looked the other way and allowed this player to stay in the games....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214776/Football-player-brother-charged-raping-drunk-boy-passed-party-Alaska.html

[gollygee]

17. That's the point of it being a culture

These attitudes don't come from nowhere. They didn't start with these kids. They're part of our culture.

[uppityperson]

18. And that is the point. It is culture beyond a few bad kids.