rape culture

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common,…

   A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.

   • By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture.
   • In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes.
   • To prevent further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need to understand what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses.
2. 2

   The cultivation (growing or production) of rape.

   • In Flanders, where rape culture is practised upon the most extensive and economical scale, the stubble is ploughed twice […]
   • It may be added, as a final recommendation of rape culture, that this plant is valuable for its yield of honey.
   • The progress in rape culture in this country is one of the marvels of latter day husbandry.

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