Rape Culture

We live in an era where people's bodies are being sexualized day by day. We are being brainwashed by media and parts of society to the point where even the most inhumane forms of action (violence, murder, injustice etc) are being misinterpreted for the preservation of interest, power, tradition and selfishness.

It's not only women who are targeted to abide by an unwritten code of behavior and appearance. Men are also pressured to adhere to a certain standard of undetermined moral and social conduct in order to live up to their stereotype.

What is 'rape culture'? 
"In a rape culture, people are surrounded with images, language, laws, and other everyday phenomena that validate and perpetuate, rape. Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as “just the way things are.”

This is what it means when people say that sexism and violence against women are “naturalized.” It means that people in our current society believe these attitudes and actions always have been, and always will be." - http://upsettingrapeculture.com/rapeculture.html

In most patriarchal societies, rape culture is often (if not always) seen as ''just the way things are''. There are people who still believe that rape is the victim's fault due to their dress code, their (possible) promiscuity and so on. There are people who believe that just because a man is almost always physically stronger than a woman, he can't possibly be raped. There are people who think that men who rape are just proving their masculinity. There are those who agree with the fact that men can't control their sexual urges and so are justified in their endeavors regarding forceful sex. There are a number of people who hold the opinion that there is no chance that rape can occur between two members of the same sex.

We need to stop these mentalities from spreading to future generations. We need to keep an open mind when dealing with these issues. Education is the key, as in most cases. We need to teach young and older minds; we must tell them that there is time for change. There are multiple ways to approach problems. We should embrace them and not run away from the responsibility of enlightenment. We must break the barriers of ignorance and fear.

I'm sitting here, just like thousands of others before me through time and space, writing about justice.. about equality.. about humanism.. and do you know what the funny thing is?
There are a variety of surveys that reveal the cruelty which occurs in most modern day societies. There are so many other happenings that have taken place and have never been reported because of stigma, fear, obedience to socially constructed norms.