Rape Culture ***Warning: Contains Potential PTSD Triggers***

This video is about rape culture and my vision for our emergence from it.

***Warning: Contains Potential PTSD Triggers***

A Production of The Catalyst Collective
www.catalystcollective.net

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• rape
• culture
• domestic
• violence
• mother
• earth
• objectification
• of
• women
• patriarchy
• radical
• feminism
• witch
• burning
• torture

[loqutor]

"Rape culture" is a load of crap. It's everything, and then it's nothing. Under feminist definitions, a woman being hit on by a man that she's not attracted to is rape.

You know what the worst part is? You're hurting actual rape victims by trivializing rape with your all-encompassing definition.

[greenrevolutionary]

@loqutor I am a rape victim. I don't feel hurt by what I've done in making this video. How many rape victims do you know (that you're aware of)? I'd think the number is large but your awareness is small; because very few survivors would feel comfortable talking to you about it.

[BoadieMcLeod]

Any man who disagrees with this video is probably a rapist.

[greenrevolutionary]

@BoadieMcLeod Yes, any man who disagrees with this video probably has some kind of personal incentive for doing so; like not wanting to be held accountable for rape, or like not wanting to be prevented from raping further victims, or like not wanting to re-evaluate his overly-entitled definition of "consent."

[mlevy79]

Good video, except this: "...nothing can stop that man from making that woman the object of his desire, not even the women herself unless she is willing and able to hire a talented criminal defense attorney capable of defending her right to defend herself."

Bullshit. She can (and should) stop him physically, and witnesses can (and should) stop him physically. By any means necessary.

[greenrevolutionary]

You're absolutely right. I should have reworked the wording of that part, I was trying to comment that it sometimes seems that women who defend themselves against male rapists are convicted at higher rates than the rapists themselves are.

In no way did I mean to imply that women or those witnessing sexual assaults should refrain from using violence. I think violence is the most appropriate response.

[Zyzfyx]

Rape is a natural part of life. In previous centuries, women accepted it. It's only been in the past hundred years that they've been TAUGHT to be traumatized about it.

[Stavol2Dual]

Aww man, I was hoping for segments of rape on video and commentataries

[llort100]

@greenrevolutionary

but you have a man's voice. You got raped in the ass?

[loqutor]

@greenrevolutionary Out of the 200 women I know personally, only two are. I have absolutely no reason, based on crime statistics, to believe that it's higher, even if I were to take into account the absolutely absurd notion that 60% of rapes are never reported to the police.

People like you, who expand the definition of rape to such ridiculous proportions, are the reason real rape victims aren't taken seriously. I don't get why this is so hard for you to grasp.

[loqutor]

@greenrevolutionary Or not wanting to be labeled a rapist simply because he looked at a woman the wrong way. Or not wanting his rights to due process and presumption of innocence taken away.

[greenrevolutionary]

@BigEagles33 By "anecdotal evidence," you must mean the real experiences of real people. Funny how "anecdotal evidence" is taken from the real world, while "scientific evidence" is taken from abstracted, tightly controlled environments which could never exist naturally.

What's a better way to learn; through experience, or by pretending that one can learn about a single subject while removing that subject from its relationships to all other subjects?

[loqutor]

@BoadieMcLeod Take your bigotry somewhere else, you feminist totalitarian.