Rape culture

Rape culture eli ("raiskauskulttuuri") viittaa siihen, että jossain alakulttuurissa tai jopa valtiossa olisi vallalla raiskausta tukevia käytäntöjä tai asenteita.

"Within feminism, rape culture is a concept that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society,[1] and in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape.[2] Examples of behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, and trivializing rape. Rape culture has been used to model behavior within social groups, including prison rape and conflict areas where war rape is used as psychological warfare. Entire countries have also been alleged to be rape cultures.[3][4][5][6][7]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture

Arvostelua (Wp)

Kanadalainen journalisti Barbara Kay pitää raiskauskulttuuriin kuuluvaa näkemystä miesvihamielisenä.

Raiskauskulttuuria väitetään myös käytettävän luomaan rasistisia stereotyyppejä arabi- ja muslimimiehistä. YK:n tutkimuksessa "Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific" (2008) 16 - 59 % parisuhteessa olleista miehistä Bangladeshissa, Kambodzhassa, Kiinassa, Indonesiassa, Papua Uusi-Guineassa ja Sri Lankassa ilmoitti raiskanneensa jonkun kumppaninsa.

"RAINN, one of North America's leading anti-sexual violence organization ... "Rape is caused not by cultural factors but by the conscious decisions, of a small percentage of the community, to commit a violent crime." It is estimated that in college, 90% of rapes are committed by 3% of the male population"

Caroline Kitchensi, in a 2014 article in Time Magazine titled "It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria" suggested that "Though rape is certainly a serious problem, there’s no evidence that it’s considered a cultural norm. ...On college campuses, obsession with eliminating 'rape culture' has led to censorship and hysteria."

According to Joyce E. Williams, "the major criticism of rape culture and the feminist theory from which it emanates is the monolithic implication that ultimately all women are victimized by all men."[1]

Christina Hoff Sommers has disputed the existence of rape culture, arguing that the common "one in four women will be raped in her lifetime" claim is based on a flawed study