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Thursday, June 18, 2009

On Rape Culture

(originally posted 05/08 at wordpress)

 


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by Katie Johncock


 


 


 


“Rape culture” is a scary phrase. At least I think so. The first time I heard it I was taking the basic advocacy training at Portland Women’s Crisis Hotline and I remember thinking: “Whoa, that sounds really intense…does our culture really support rape?” What I found out was that rape culture is so normalized that it’s easy to miss it. What exactly is rape culture?