End Rape Culture

In a world where some tend to wonder first if a girl "asked for it" when she gets raped, isn't it time to shift the conversation and ask what in the world makes someone think it's OK to rape?
The Nation published an article titled "Ten Things to End Rape Culture". - L.
Excerpts:
"1. Name the real problems: Violent masculinity and victim-blaming. These are the cornerstones of rape culture and they go hand in hand. When an instance of sexual assault makes the news and the first questions the media asks are about the victim’s sobriety, or clothes, or sexuality, we should all be prepared to pivot to ask, instead, what messages the perpetrators received over their lifetime about rape and about “being a man.” (...)
2. Re-examine and re-imagine masculinity: Once we name violent masculinity as a root cause of violence against women, we have to ask: Is masculinity inherently violent? How can you be a man/masculine without being violent? Understand that rape is not a normal or natural masculine urge."
Read full article here.

Thoughts? Any suggestions?

Tags: Blame, Culture, Gender, Masculinity, Men, Rape, Responsibility, Sexism, Victim, Woman, More…Women

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Comment by Lunakiss on March 25, 2013 at 4:40pm: Men need to embrace both masuclinity and femininity. Femininty doesn't mean weak. There are goddesses who are warrior goddess, leadership goddesses, etc. The reason why so much "rape" is embedded in the culture because we have not embrace the Feminine Divine at all. We're still trying to kill her and eradicate her. If we embrace the Infinite Goddess we wouldn't have a problem. Our culture keeps embracing dark male enerrgy and it is now being acknowledge because people are spiritually waking up and coming out their submissive funk. We still need to elect Earth Angels(see Doreen Virtue book or her Lightworkrs Way book) to get into office to change this on a legal level. Punish the rapists not the victims. Eath Angels need to take on a world domnation:media, hollywood, government, environment, scoial, education and on and on. We can do this now let's roll.

Comment by Joseph Stavitsky on March 13, 2013 at 2:35pm: We have a problem with victim blaming. People who get fired, who get mugged, who get raped, were simply unprepared. They should just get out of the way to make room for someone who is "better".