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Harvard law professor Diane Rosenfeld teaches the Gender Violence Legal Policy Workshop and has been working for years to push the federal government to fund programs like MVP in schools. "It is definitely in a school's best interest to do as much on the prevention side as possible," she said, noting that the Steubenville event--sensational as it was--was hardly a one-off, but a growing phenomenon among students at high schools and colleges.
Group sex attacks against girls are statistically on the rise. For the last quarter-century, since numbers have been kept, sexual violence has also become more brutal, the age of perpetrators is dropping, and attacks by multiple perpetrators are up. According to U.S. Department of Justice statistics provided by University of Arizona Public health professor Mary P. Koss, the percentage of rapes involving two or more offenders went from 7 percent in 1994-1998 to 10 percent in 2005-2010.
Easier access to violent and dehumanizing Internet porn has coincided with the increases, and many observers believe the trends are related.
And it isn't just teenage boys who are complicit. Among the many disturbing aspects of the Steubenville case were the attitudes of the female bystanders, and the haters who took to Twitter to threaten the victim after the verdict.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/time-to-talk-about-misogy_b_3069764.html
But, but---I was told right here on DU that things are getting better! (Ok, i trashed that thread) And I Should be grateful!
PDJane
(10,103 posts)They're getting worse since the rise of the reich wing.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)and the escalation and availability of porn. feeding off. not to mention the dysfunction of society and social media that feeds it and allows like minds. oh... and i can think of more. entertainment media. rape is now our entertainment.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)deny that there is a culture of rape in this country.What is behind it?
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)not have to expend energy on hard facts.
it hurts to admit and acknowledge the reality we live. i know it takes up my time, energy, feel good.
and if men do not have to acknowledge any wrongs, why would they have to address their sexist/misogynist behavior? they can keep on keeping on.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Sadly, the same adage doesn't apply to young American men and women watching guys strip and violate a drunken (or sober) female.
By now, we've all absorbed the main lesson of Steubenville: the dehumanization of the female is so pervasive that young people will stand by and not just watch rape, but laugh at it, video it, tweet it, post it to Facebook, and try to cover their tracks when police investigate.
And anyone attempting to address that dehumanization is demonized. Goddess forbid men shouldn't be encouraged to see women as things, as sex objects first and foremost, and women to see themselves that way, through the male gaze.
Hugh Hefner, who has made millions selling access to women's bodies via images, says it outright.
"The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts."
Flynt is even more direct, sarcastically mocking the women who fight such objectification:
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)See the stamp? "Last all meat issue"
And men here on DU actually do cheer these 'men'. Probably women, too. Ain't it great.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)...
Few people understood right away that the June 1978 issue of Hustler magazine was an historic moment in the fight for sexual equality in North America.
The cover showing a womans buttocks and legs sticking up from a meat grinder, with ground meat on a plate beneath the machine was Hustler publisher and self-anointed free-speech champion Larry Flynts answer to feminist criticism.
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That cover mobilized the womens movement to fight against pornography like nothing else, said Richard Poulin in an interview this week. Poulin, a professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, will speak today in Montreal, part of a conference on Youth, Media, and Sexualization organized by the Womens Y.
Unfortunately for society, it was a battle the womens movement lost, Poulin said, in part because feminists themselves were divided, with some arguing that it was a question of free expression and sexual liberation.
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The rest of this is really good. Very much worth reading.
$100 billion industry... defended to the death by liberals. Yeah.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)that think it is funny.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i mean really. why? surely this tells all us how dworkinite we are and how unfair we are to the men. why the fuck would a woman be offended.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Too many self-described liberals proudly defend those who have made millions off the women they so proudly think so little of.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)Would they allow their teenage old boy to watch today's internet porn?
It seems the hatred toward women is increasing. And this shaming of the victim when it should be the perps who are shamed. How many of the female bystanders participate in the shaming in hopes that they won't be the next victim? What the fuck has happened in this country? How can anyone deny a culture of rape & misogyny in this country?
I don't remember it being this bad when I was younger - the amount of hatred & the denial.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)access, by even the hardest defenders of porn. then it became, well... it is everywhere, what can we do. then recently... kids gotta learn about sex somewhere. and now, they cheer. cheer our boys seeing the crudest of it, cause nature/biology, insists this is who a boys is.
there has been a evolution to this porn for children on du over the last decade.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)thanks.