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There is a question on Y! A about 'rape culture'. I'd not heard this term until recently. Where did it come from, who coined it and why?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    The Wiktionary has a good take on it:

    Etymology 1 From rape ‎(“Brassica rapa plant”) + culture. Noun

    rape culture ‎(uncountable)

    (agriculture) The cultivation of rape.

    Etymology 2 From rape ‎(“non-consensual sex”) + culture. Noun

    rape culture ‎(uncountable)

    A culture, environment or society where rape is 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. [from 20th c.] "

    It did come out of feminist theory but also about male rape in jail. This is the first documented case that they have:

    "1977 Spring, Lacy, Suzanne, “"Three Weeks in May": Speaking Out on Rape, a Political Art Piece”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 2, number 1, JSTOR 3346109, page 67:

    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."

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    It disturbs the peace, and what rape does, with a lasting effect a person will have to live with it over. Instead of having love, and making it, respectfully so, and mutual between people, so this has a lasting effect on people, forevermore. Instead, it is the opposite of this. Hate, being the reason for crime, and it stresses people, rather than love, and it isn't stressing for people. It's all good, then, and a wonderful world. This is my understanding of what is meant by it.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It is a term that was created to help push an agenda.

    We could also say that America has an obesity culture (given that obesity cases outnumber rape cases by a phenomenal number), but that wouldn't be politically correct, would it?

  • You probably haven't heard of it cos you live in the real world around normal people. It's one of many terms the feminists dreamed up to try and create something that doesn't exist.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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