Rape Culture: 3 Reasons Most Men Are to Blame For Misogyny [View all]

[boston bean]

The discourse surrounding rape culture and the pervading attitudes of victim blaming are reaching an all-time epoch with each new shared and re-shared story on a new rape case making its rounds on social media platforms. These cases include most recently the Delhi gang rape case, the Steubenville High School football case, and the Rehtaeh Parsons story, all of which have churned our stomachs, broadened our vernacular around synonyms of "deplorable," and made us shout "why?!"

Why indeed.

Why — we are asked in pictures and Tweets and statuses — are we centering our awareness and education on rape around "not getting raped" as opposed to "don’t rape"? It is a timely question, a highly relevant one, and in many ways the correct one, but one that is far too implicit about the root of the problem and circuitous in its blame.

Thus, I will come out and say it for you, ladies.

It's men. We are the root of the problem and deserving of the blame.

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There are three ways in which we are most culpable:

1. Most obviously, men are almost exclusively the perpetrators:
2. Men have perpetuated a culture around manhood and masculinity that is conducive to misogynist behavior:
3. Men's contribution to the anti-sexual assault movement has mostly been a passive, or neutral, one:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/38057/rape-culture-3-reasons-most-men-are-to-blame-for-misogyny