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Trigger Warning: given the subject matter, this workshop does use the word "rape" often. It also references depictions and descriptions of rape in media. While none of this media is visually graphic, it can still be upsetting and triggering. As always, prioritize yourself first. Take a moment if you need a moment, practice grounding and self-care exercises, whatever helps you.
What is Rape Culture?
What is Rape Culture?
"In a rape culture, people are surrounded with images, language, laws, and other everyday phenomena that validate and perpetrate rape. 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.'"
Rape culture is not necessarily a culture that promotes rape; it is one that normalizes it. The everyday manifestation of rape culture may present as a crude joke (think Daniel Tosh's “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now? Like right now?”) or a song lyric (think Jamie Foxx singing "I'm going to make you do what you've already said you're not going to do" in Blame it on the Alcohol).
Read more about disrupting rape culture on force's website.
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