Shakesville: Today in Rape Culture
Where is his advice for men who hurt women? Nowhere to be found, naturally, because Jenkins is just another passive recipient of rape culture narratives who lazily accepts that there will always be monsters in the world, oh well whaddaya gonna do?, and thus regards the only solution as exclusively tasking victims with rape prevention...
If Jenkins wants to make a serious contribution to a conversation about rape prevention, he could try writing something that answers this question: Why is it always more important to lecture women on what they should be doing to avoid rape than to talk to men about the fact that they do not have the right to women's bodies without express consent?
...The only thing that the victim of every rapist shares in common is the bad fucking luck of being in the presence of a rapist.
Rapists are determined to rape. And if Chelsea King hadn't crossed John Albert Gardner's path, someone else would have.
Victim-blaming is based on the damnably fucked-up notion that people (and women in particular) allow themselves to be victimized by virtue of carelessness or stupidity, and they need to be warned and educated and lectured and hectored and cajoled and shamed into never being victims (again).
No.
No one has ever been a victim of sexual violence without someone determined to do it to them.
Enough victim blaming. Enough.
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