From 4d395ccbe040d0ef1fefa386b408da6dd72edc92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Owen Jacobson Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:06:36 -0400 Subject: Wording changes: of course nobody self-identifies as a rapist, don't be daft. --- wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'wiki/people') diff --git a/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md b/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md index 1be079d..62d3d67 100644 --- a/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md +++ b/wiki/people/rape-culture-and-men.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 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, self-identified rapists, so I dug a bit at my assumptions. +euphemistic way, identifiable as rapists, so I dug a bit at my assumptions. 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 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ and raped", and so on. 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) rather than violence. +appallingly, convenience or indifference) rather than violence. 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, -- cgit v1.2.3