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This Is Rape Culture

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In the last couple of years, I've been interacting with folks who take a more +active hand in gender and social issues, and it's changed the way I see the +word “rape.” It didn't entirely make sense to me how so many people could be +self-identified victims of rape culture while so few people are, even in a +euphemistic way, identifiable as rapists, so I dug a bit at my assumptions.

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Growing up immersed in what I now recognize as the early stages of modern +“news” culture, rape was always reported as a violent act. Something so black +and white that if you committed rape, you would know yourself to be a rapist. +Media descriptions of rape and of rapists focussed on acts of overt violence: +“she was in the wrong neighbourhood and got raped at knifepoint,” “held down +and raped,” and so on.

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Reading more recent postings on the idea of “rape culture,” however, paints a +very different picture of the same word. “Raped at a party,” “too drunk to +consent,” and other depictions of rape as an act of exploitation (or, +appallingly, convenience or indifference) rather than violence.

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Let me be perfectly clear here: without active consent, any sexual contact +is rape or is on the road to it. In that sense, violence, exploitation, +intoxication and other forms of coercion are interchangeable and equally vile.

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However, when the public idea of rape is limited to rapes with overt violence, +it's really easy to excuse non-violent coerced sex as “not really rape.” After +all, you didn't hit her, did you? She never said no and meant it, right?

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I don't know what I'm going to do with this insight, yet, but I think it's an +important piece towards educating the next generation to be more awesome and +less dangerous to each other and un-learning any bad habits and beliefs I +already have.

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Rincewind, we are +told, is a wizard. On the Disc, wizarding is a profession; Pratchett based +them on the English academic system, with colleges and bursars and tenure. A +wizard is a man of some academic distinction, or a student of such a man; +career wizards are uniformly well-fed, of sound body (if not necessarily of +sound mind) reasonably dressed, opinionated, crankish, and - importantly - +capable of magic.

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Rincewind is a wizard: he is not well fed, having spent his life being thrust +from one adventure to the next; his body is more attuned for running away +from things than it is for meandering the halls or sitting by a fire; his +opinions largely revolve around “is this new thing going to eat me,” rather +than more abstract matters; importantly, he is completely incapable of magic, +in spite of years of study.

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Rincewind is a wizard, and the interesting thing about that is that the +reader is expected (and I certainly did) take both his and the narrator's +insistence on it at face value. Why shouldn't we?

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I had a conversation with @aeletich a while +back, while she was teaching herself to program. I don't recall exactly what +prompted it, but at one point I told her to stop worrying about all the +better programmers out there: from everyone else's point of view, she was +already a wizard. There might be better wizards, and worse wizards, but she'd +already passed any sort of bright line delimiting “not a programmer” from +“programmer.”

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I think self-identification is important, and overlooked.

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