In a speech in 1983, titled, “I want a 24-hour truce in which there is no rape,” radical feminist Andrea Dworkin hit the nail on the head of rape culture, “And the problem is that you think it’s out there: and it’s not out there. It’s in you.” 33 years later, the entire length of my lifetime later, we still have not learned this lesson. Of course it is easier to perpetuate the myth of the stranger in the darkness, but as we know, as we’ve known for generations, the vast majority to the point of nearly all, rapes and sexual assaults are committed by people we know against people they know.
It is well past due that we change the narrative by acknowledging that rape culture enables violence, and we accept it through complacency and willful ignorance. This article provides an excellent primer on the conversations we need to have with one another, and especially that parents need to have with their sons. Because it’s not out there, it is in us, and because we let it reside there.
– Brett Goldberg
Read the article via Huffington Post.
