{"id":6838,"date":"2013-03-22T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2013-03-21T04:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T09:29:42","slug":"this-is-what-rape-culture-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/03\/22\/this-is-what-rape-culture-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What Rape Culture Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-posted to add to the discussion about sexual assault in the aftermath of the\u00a0Steubenville rape trial<\/a>, the\u00a0Senate hearing on rape and harassment in the military<\/a>, and the\u00a0controversy at Occidental College<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This screenshot of the front page of The Sun<\/a> is an excellent example of the eroticization of violence against women and<\/em> our insistent denial of it:<\/p>\n

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The article is a condemnation of a video game in which the goal is to rape a mother and her two daughters (and force them to have abortions if they get pregnant).\u00a0\u00a0 They call the game “sick” and “shocking,” but also include a huge picture of the virtual rape victim sexily stripping down to her underwear.\u00a0 Twisty, at I Blame the Patriarchy, observes<\/a> that “…in terms of screen real estate, titillating images take up more space on the Sun\u2019s web page than actual copy…”<\/p>\n

Notice, also, the “related story” about\u00a0a girl murdered who had reported rape threats and then, to the right of that, a dating advertisement featuring a couple of girls\u00a0making bedroom eyes at the viewer.<\/p>\n

This is what rape culture looks like: a story about a video game that encourages players to rape and otherwise torture women and girls, alongside\u00a0titillating\u00a0images from that very game; a story about a\u00a0“girl” who had actually been murdered, alongside a photo of her looking invitingly into the camera; and a dating website. \u00a0With this material like this, we learn that sex, violence, and women aren’t separate concepts. \u00a0Instead of learning to think about sex, violence, and women, we learn to think about, and fantasize about, sexviolencewomen.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re-posted to add to the discussion about sexual assault in the aftermath of the\u00a0Steubenville rape trial, the\u00a0Senate hearing on rape and harassment in the military, and the\u00a0controversy at Occidental College. This screenshot of the front page of The Sun is an excellent example of the eroticization of violence against women and our insistent denial of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2090,129,1711,120,133],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-media","tag-toysgames","tag-sex","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54546,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/54546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}