-Travis "as a cause I mean" Edmunds
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "xBrin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anatomy of a rape culture Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:57:08 -0600
<<http://www.amptoons.com/blog/001248.html>>
... So what does cause rape? Or, put another way, if we can agree that we live in a "rape culture" (defined as "a culture in which rape is prevalent and is maintained through fundamental attitudes and beliefs about gender, sexuality, and violence"), then what are those fundamental attitudes about gender, sexuality, and violence?
I'd identify three interrelated candidates: the myth of masculinity, cultural disdain for women, and our society's conception of sexuality as something possessed exclusively by women. ...
--- I would think this ties greatly into David Brins 4 Primary Meme's, particularly Machismo.
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