Rape culture is everywhere. It’s so pervasive, we don’t even see it unless we know to look for it. ThinkProgress reporters explain what this looks like, and why it doesn’t have to be this way.
Transcript:
ESTHER YU HSI LEE, ThinkProgress: This is rape culture.
ZACK FORD, ThinkProgress: And it’s everywhere.
JOSEPH DIBENEDETTO, Fox News: What did she expect to happen at 1 a.m. in the morning?
JOHN KASISCH, Ohio Governor: I would give you one bit of advice. Don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol.
SUSAN PATTON: Why do you not just get up and leave?
ADRIENNE MAHSA VARKIANI, ThinkProgress: Rape culture is hearing “yes”
TARA CULP-RESSLER, ThinkProgress: when someone says “no.”
LAUREL RAMOND, ThinkProgress: It’s blaming assault on the person who has been assaulted,
KIRA LERNER, ThinkProgress: or discrediting the victim’s story,
PHOEBE GAVIN, ThinkProgress: because they took “too long to report.”
JOSH ISRAEL, ThinkProgress: They “didn’t fight back against their attacker.”
LEE: They “drank too much.”
VARKIANI: They were “asking for it.”
CARIMAH TOWNES, ThinkProgress: Rape culture is when a person is sexually assaulted every two minutes
RAMOND: every two minutes in the United States.
FORD: But perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to serve jail time
CULP-RESSLER: than the people who commit any other kind of violent crime.
ISRAEL: any other kind of violent crime.
ADAM PECK, ThinkProgress: It’s when 2 out of 3 sexual assaults go unreported
CULP-RESSLER: most commonly because the victims fear retaliation.
VARKIANI: Rape culture is built on harmful gender stereotypes,
RAMOND: where men are seen as entitled to sex,
FORD: and women are expected to provide it.
GAME OF THRONES: Take off your clothes.
ROBIN THICKE, Blurred Lines: I know you want it. I know you want it.
YALE UNIVERSITY, DELTA KAPPA EPSILON: No means yes, yes means anal.
SIXTEEN CANDLES:
Ted, that’s a Rolls Royce.
Bryce: Ted, that’s the prom queen.
Cliff: You got two girls in one night!
GAVIN: Men are told to treat sex like a conquest.
RYAN KORONOWSKI, ThinkProgress: And if they say no?
CULP-RESSLER: Well, they are somehow “less of a man.”
TOWNES: “A bitch”
FORD: “A pussy.”
LEE: Rape culture is so pervasive
ISRAEL: that we don’t see it
PECK: unless we know to look for it.
RAYMOND: But the evidence is everywhere.
TOWNES: everywhere.
VARKIANI: everywhere.
CULP-RESSLER: everywhere.
GAVIN: In the meantime, there goes another two minutes.