#rapecultureiswhen Is the Perfect Answer to Everyone Who Denies Rape Culture Exists

[shaayecanaan]

72. Increased surveillance in public areas

and private areas as well. I think that any parents that abuse their children as well as husbands that have mistrtaed their wives should be required to submit to video surveillance in the home.

Chemical castration for repeat sex offenders

Substantially increase alcohol excise

and I do think education is important, particularly for young boys.

Empirically, I am not convinced that rape jokes by comedians (and the like) do anything to increase the prevalence of rape. It is a bit like arguing that jokes about murder increase the rate of murder. The earlier argument was that pornography caused rape. There really wasn't any empirical evidence for that either.

There is actually a very strong sense of opprobrium attached to rape. If faced with the question: "what would you rather be, an axe murderer or a rapist?" something like 96% of people will choose to be an axe murderer. Even fictional serial killers like Hannibal Lecter studiously refrain from rape, lest they lose their Byronic anti-heroic appeal. The cult of the serial killer is a very real thing (although there is no indication that it causes serial killing). No one sympathises with a serial rapist.

"Rape culture" is essentially an attempt to expand the breadth of that opprobrium beyond the criminal act itself, and to establish that we are all socially responsible for the prevalence of rape. Empirical issues aside, I am not sure that it is a smart move. The more behavior you include in the moral category of rape, the more you dilute the impact of the term itself.