Normalization Of Rape Culture

Rape culture has a big effect on society. It gives out the normalization of sexual violence on media such as music, television, movies, ads, and so on. Rape culture is not a phrase you can find in a dictionary, but it has a clear meaning. In Lindsay Dahl’s article, “What is ‘rape culture’ and how does it affect you?”, she used Wikipedia’s definition to explain what it means. “Rape culture is a concept that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society, and in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape. Examples of behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, and trivializing rape.” Essentially, rape culture is not only about rape. It is about the sexual violence towards individuals, men and women alike. It affects society because it normalizes sexual violence towards women and the objectification of a woman’s body. By allowing this to happen, many rape victims are blamed for their actions, like if they were drunk when they got raped, and

It is not only in social media, but also in video games. In Japan, there is a rape simulator game called RapeLay, which is pretty much a man following a 12-year-old school girl around, raping not only her but also her mom and sister. Now you would think old men would play this game, but you are wrong. In the article, “Rape Simulator games and the Normalization of Sexual Violence”, there is a quote from a 13-year-old boy who has stated that he had played the game. Only 13 years old. If children that young are allowed to play these horrific games, they tell them that women are just toys for men to play with and they are allowed to sexually harass them. If we teach boys, and even girls, at a young age that sexual violence is a terrible thing, our society would change with the younger generation and rape culture would soon go