I was planning on blogging about
Robin Thicke’s song Blurred Lines,
because of its highly controversial status because of a seemingly dark theme of rape. I
then stumbled across this article talking about Rape Culture and how it has
become integrated into our society. We are exposed to Rape Culture in movies,
video games, T.V., pornography, and the internet; but the scary part is that because
it is so much a part of our society we have become desensitized to it. This
poem stresses “Rape no longer knows closed doors or dark alleyways, it’s assimilated
into our daily routines”. When I stumbled upon this article there was a poem
written about it that talks about Rape Culture in American society and I can
honestly say this was one of the most powerful poems I have ever listened to.
The women behind this piece of
powerful poetry do not sugarcoat the situation. They give extremely alarming
statistics such as, 1 in 5 women will be a victim of rape or sexual assault. The
statistic that hit the hardest was; that nationwide there are over 400,000
unprocessed rape kits in police storage units. How can such a horrific crime be
just pushed to the side as if it is irrelevant?
“From birth American culture
teaches children which gender they will be, the perpetrator or the victim”.
This definitely correlates with the movement to end men’s violence against women.
We teach young boys they need to be aggressive, powerful, controlling, and
dominant. If we are teaching young boys these are the characteristics they must
possess to be considered a man, how can we deny the Rape Culture present? It
sounds like we are promoting and teaching boys that rape is okay, because those
are the characteristics one must have to be a man. Below is the link to the
poem.
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