FEM 2110 Lecture 9: Rape culture
Document Summary
Thinking about and understanding rape culture and #metoo. The concept of rape culture is one way to talk about systemic and institutional normalization of violence against women and other marginalized groups. Brings light to the fact that people tend to makes violent acts seem like an individual case that does not need to be thought of while it is not. Benefited the settler colonizers who wanted to overpower the. Writes this to give us a framework of what the end of this violence done to. Describes a series of solutions and actions that must be taken to solve this problem. We need to work hard and outside the state. Shines a light on the glorification of virginity and vilification of sex. Says that rape culture is connected to the status quo relations of power. Going against it is a threat to the conservative heteropatrichal people. Description of victim, ex: the jane doe case.