Air Date: 10-21-2016
Today we look at just a few of the manifestations of rape culture in society with plenty of focus on the need for affirmative consent education
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Pussy-Gate Vile Trump Audio Leaks, Exposes Classless Trump - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date 10-11-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: GRAB'm by the PU$$Y - will.i.am ft Apl.de.ap and Liane V
Ch. 4: Act 2: Job Fair for Future Women - Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (@FullFrontalSamB) - Air Date: 02-23-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Can’t Take No for an Answer - David Nunez
Ch. 6: Act 3: #NotAllMen #SometimesAllMen - Trumpcast - Air Date 10-13-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Backwards Blues - Adia Victoria
Ch. 8: Act 4: Limbaugh- 'Here Come the Rape Police' After One Whiff Of Lack Of Consent - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 10-13-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Consent - Jack and Dean
Ch. 10: Act 5: How rape culture manifests itself - @InDeepRadio w: @AngieCoiro - Air Date 7-2-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: We Are the Kids - WALK THE MOON
Ch. 12: Act 6: Trevor calls bullshit on Donald Trump's "locker room talk" defense. - The Daily Show - Air Date 10-10-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Can't You Tell? - Aimee Mann
Ch. 14: Act 7: What Exactly Do Rapists Look Like? - @TheYoungTurks - Air Date: 10-17-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: Boys Will Be Boys - Alisha
Ch. 16: Act 8: Not in my locker room - @EdgeofSports - w: Dave Zirin - Air Date 10-15-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow
Ch. 18: Act 9: #HikeforHealing to Support The #MonumentQuilt for Survivors of Rape and Abuse via @UpsettingRape (FORCE) - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 20: Act 10: Your vagina is not a car - Clementine Ford at TEDxSouthBankWomen - Air Date: 02-05-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Two book recommendations of the history of racial oppression - Tyler from Kentucky
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 22: Final comments on the documentary Audrie & Daisy and the need for early education on affirmative consent
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION
Find a Hike for Healing team near you or start one at https://www.crowdrise.com/hikeforhealing
View quilt squares, get information on making a quilt square, sign up to host a workshop and volunteer at https://themonumentquilt.org
Check out #WhyWomenDontReport on Twitter
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Our quilt project shares rape survivors' stories (CNN.com)
Trump's Campaign Embraces Rape Culture (ThinkProgress.com)
Everyone's talking to their daughters about Donald Trump. They need to talk to their sons. (Mic.com)
The Conversation You Must Have With Your Sons (HuffingtonPost.com)
8 Societal Barriers That Make it Hard to Report Sexual Assault (EverydayFeminism.com)
Women share stories of sexual assault to show Trump what rape culture looks like (HuffingtonPost.com)
Written by Best of the Left Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman.
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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Because I’ve always been wondering that, despite the sexual assault laws being increasingly broadened to categorize more and more actions as sexual assault, the number of these crimes happening have statistically been going down over the past few decades.
I don’t know what it was like when you were my age, but I was raised being told not to hit girls, even when they hit me first, and men who were known to beat their wives or otherwise assault women in general were made social pariahs and seen as less than human. And yet today I’m told that this sort of abusive behavior is encouraged, somehow.
It was amazing, sad, and disturbing. I am 66 years old and never in my life have I ever had a thought about rapeing a woman nor have I ever been around anyone that has expressed any
desire, joke or comment about rape. Maybe being an ole hippie, we just never thought about abusing women in this way or any other way. In fact, being a man and supporting women’s rights has just been a normal way of expressing my consciousness…you know, right versus wrong.
This election has not only assaulted women and men by it’s (Trump) hate filled rhetoric and inhumane references to so many cultures but also assaults any thinking person’s sense of decency, spirituality and quality of life.
Rape has being going on for thousands of years and seems to be in the human gene pool.
I found this podcast to be extremely educational at the same time heart-breaking. I am not so naive as to believe it is ever going to change. What needs changing first is a higher level of wisdom and judgment on this planet. What needs to happen is a constant activism from both men and women to make sure that ‘rape culture’ is clearly defined and taught trustfully and truthfully in our educational systems on all levels.
Forget religion and the churches.. they have failed and always will. In some ways they have tainted and fouled our society with the false teachings of false prophets that have never really protected our women and children from a organized patriarchal reality.
Besides, in your previous exchanges, you couldn’t cite any specific points to counter my arguments, and just dismissed all of them wholesale by diverting the discussion to a bunch of reading material. If you are going to present the reading material as part of your counterargument, cite the passage which contradicts my claims, since you wouldn’t be raising an objection in the first place if you didn’t know that there was a specific passage somewhere in the material that supposedly debunked my claims in the first place. It was a diversionary tactic, I fell for it, and it shut down the discussion altogether as a result.
But if we live in a rape culture, then being accused of rape will get me the hero’s treatment instead, right? Which outcome seems more likely?
It’s a messy experience, it can leave one or both parties filled with regrets, but the only way such an act can be considered rape is if both parties were charged as equally guilty, as neither of them could be considered to be in sound enough states of mind.
And I don’t buy for a minute that actual victims would rather not report the crimes, since if most rapists are repeat offenders, why would they want to wish what just happened to them to happen to anyone else in the first place?
The definition of rape culture, as it is described in the title card, does not exist in the western world. Rape is and has been a reprehensible crime for a large part of most of human civilization, and was punishable by death for a large portion of this past as well.
I don’t think that people need to be “taught not to rape”. An actual rapist knows that what they are doing is wrong, and doesn’t care. You might as well teach a thief not to rob you.
If making rape jokes is equivalent to the perpetuation of rape culture, then is making jokes like “I’m gonna kill my boss if they move my schedule again” a perpetuation of murder culture? I would think not. You may think that these jokes are tasteless, but it’s a far cry from normalizing rape as anything other than forbidden.
In fact, if one is to change the definition of rape to making jokes or just making people feel uncomfortable in general, that trivializes the traumatic experiences of actual rape victims; if everything is considered rape, nothing is.
If America actually had a rape culture, there would be no controversy surrounding Trump’s tasteless statements whatsoever, because rape would be a “normal” thing to us.