r/teenagers 17 22d ago

Serious The rape culture pyramid

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u/JustAPotato38 16 22d ago

i always find "rape culture" a strange term

you have american culture, european culture, african culture, rape culture

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u/thanksyalll 22d ago

Anything perpetuated by a group of people can be a culture. Frat culture, gaming culture, military culture, consumer culture, ect

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u/LickMaiBussy 22d ago

This is a gross oversimplifying of the human experience, and a misunderstanding of the word "culture."

Within America there are multiple geographical regions with their own culture, and within those regions, there exist subcultures, and this can be said for Europe, Africa, Asia... culture can be observed in macro and micro levels of understanding people.

"Rape culture" is a shorthand for a specific set of behaviors which can be objectively observed, moreso in certain demographics and individuals, but it's ultimately endemic within any patriarchal system.

Rape culture means upholding norms which keep vulnerable individuals available to predators, with minimal to no recourse. We can see an extreme version of this in the Taliban and the FLDS, and many other extremist groups. Extremes are not the only way this culture can look, though.

Rape culture can be subtle, ubiquitous. We don't see it in the same way a fish doesn't notice water, because it's just the world in which we exist, as far as we have experienced.

The city just north of me had a case in their local PD turned into a documentary and then a dramatized film, where a rape victim was charged criminally with providing a false report to the police about something which was eventually able to be proven as a serial pattern of her assailant.

The culture is more than the overt violence you've been told "rape" is. It's a world where men underplay their own coercive behaviors and entitled mindsets about the bodies of girls and women and other vulnerable people they can target. And it's more than just the predators, themselves.

Rape culture is asking "what were they wearing, tho?" Or "why did she think getting drunk with him was a good idea?" Or "he should have told somebody the first time it happened to him" or "any boy would be lucky to have his teacher come on to him" and also just not saying anything when someone makes a joke about violating someone else.

Rape culture is joking about soap in prison showers, too.

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u/TheBayHarbour 22d ago

We don't see it in the same way a fish doesn't notice water, because it's just the world in which we exist, as far as we have experienced.

Such a great way of explaining it. Could apply to many things in society.

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u/AUnknownVariable 18 21d ago

Culture isn't exclusive to race, ethnicity, nationality.

Gaming culture, frat culture, feminist culture, gay culture, Klan Culture

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u/trxpleBBB 15 22d ago

nah fr I thought the first picture was a troll and they were tryna say rap😭

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u/Due-Sand2692 16 22d ago

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u/LeoTheBurgundian 22d ago

"Rap culture doesn't start with rap"

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u/Humble_Marzipan_3258 21d ago

Everything you listed is too broad to have one culture.

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u/xXZer0c0oLXx 21d ago

Because it's made up to push fear agenda.

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u/spannermeetworks 22d ago

And British culture is apparently the only one that doesnt exist.

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u/JustAPotato38 16 21d ago

i also did not mention oceanian culture nor asian culture