Thursday, December 12, 2013

Rape Culture

At this time and point in our generation we have a rapidly climbing, reoccurring event that is called rape culture.  Rape culture is a new thing in our era where rape is almost perceived to be an okay thing and is looked past in many ways.  The definition of rape is the penetration of any sorts, no consent, and where a person forcing themselves upon someone else.  But now days people have redefined rape to only a different stature and for this we have to point the finger at multimedia and advertisement. Reason for this is because the people the run these things have almost said that these things are okay in todays’ culture.  A lot of music today has a hint of rape culture in it, but to hear it you must not listen to the music but the lyrics of the music.  This music is usually heard by many different sections of ages but primarily targeted at old teenagers and young adults.  But this does not mean rape is isolated to only one age group it stretches across many age groups.  To fix this problem the people must find the root of the problem and terminate it because, even if you stop it for one generation the problem will only just return only in a different form.  The most likely roots of the problem are in music and video producers. These people produce a sense of masculinity to the male audience and give off message through both music and videos that it is okay to belittle women around them.  When in fact that it is not okay to do so, because if the youth believes that these action are okay then it will only start a pandemic for generation to come.  To prevent all of these to continue we must stop all media and etc. that promotes rape culture. 

 

 

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