This photo is used to represent consent. Consent is giving permission for something to happen. This has to do with the rape culture that we live in today. Victim blaming is heard in many situations when we hear about rape happening. Some examples of this include: "They were asking for it." , "Did you see what she was wearing? It was no surprise it happened." and "She shouldn't have been drinking."
There are no excuses to rape. Rape is Rape.
In today's pop culture, you will see in many movie plots that are based on heterosexual relationships, if the guy feels he is destined to be with a specific person no does not mean no and he will end up getting the women. It is portrayed that it is the woman's responsibility to avoid getting raped rather than the man's responsibility not to commit it.
Rape has become so normalized in our eyes. It is everywhere in the media. In movies, when the guy repeatedly gets turned down by a woman and still ends up getting her by the end, it teaches us that men know what is best for women. It teaches men that women are some sort of prize and no does not actually mean no and to keep pushing until she says yes. Women are rarely seen pursuing the men in movies unless codes are broken and the woman is represented as more 'masculine'. In class, we also discussed how images in magazines show rape too. When the woman are posed laying on the floor and men are surrounding her and she seems to be 'zonked out'.
If a woman is dressed a certain way, or if she has had a little bit too much to drink does not make rape ok in any situation. There needs to be consent given before anything happens, and that consent can be taken back at anytime. Rape is rape.
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