A few days of ritual Women’s Day – March 8 always – here’s a poll that sends into the atmosphere a sickening perfume clichés and misconceptions we hoped finally evaporated. While rape is recognized by law as a crime for over thirty years, it mobilizes against him relentlessly associations, government plans, campaigns, four out of ten French still believe the rapist’s liability is mitigated if the victim a provocative attitude (a short skirt?). That’s still more than half of the population (61% of French, 65% of French) a man more evil “to control his sexual desire for a woman.” And that continues the myth of the unknown rapist in a dark street when most rapes are committed by relatives.
Really? The survey conducted by Ipsos (1) for the traumatic memory association and victimology is, in any case, the first photograph – heartbreaking -. “representations of rape and sexual violence”
Some zooms some startling results. If almost all the French (96%) qualify rightly rape “forcing a person who refuses to have sex,” he still found that 24% consider ‘fellatio reports of sexual assault, not rape. Similarly, 26% believe that when a victim does not resist the threats of her attacker, it is not rape, but sexual assault.
Basically, the survey reveals persistent weight the so-called “rape culture”. The expression, born in the mouths of American feminists in the 70s, is an environment that tends to trivialize, excuse, minimize rape and sexual violence by words or innuendo in the life of every day, the media, culture and even politics. Like the Spanish MEP José Manuel Castelao Bragaña (who has since resigned), estimating in 2012 that “Laws are like women, they are made to be broken.” Both mechanisms sneaky who deny the seriousness of this crime. These workings, here they are.
The guilt of the victim
They come to meet, appreciate, have a fulfilling sex life. He offers the following. They promise to meet that evening for a rogue moment. But when she gets home, she has a headache and no longer want. He does not care and imposes a report, pretending to believe that his “no” are repeated a game. In an episode aired last week, Plus Belle la Vie attacked and rape conjugal. If it was to raise awareness is wasted in the wake of the spread, the official Twitter account of the soap ran a survey to gather the feelings of viewers. With, as a response, such proposals: “I was horrified (e) / Coralie sought / This is not rape.” This big skid, for which producers apologized after a torrent of outrage on social networks, shows that old prejudice that sometimes the victim may have its share of responsibility. Thus, 27% of those surveyed by Ipsos, the responsibility of the rapist is less if the victim has proved seductive if she flirted or went alone to a stranger. And 17% of them impose its joint report is not rape.
The denial of consent
she said “no”, but in her heart, she thinks “yes”: this idea also persist, with two out of ten respondents. To be sometimes “glamourisée”: in 2013, the American-Canadian Robin Thicke has been accused of promoting rape. In question ? The ambiguous title of the song Blurred Lines ( “blurred lines”), and certain words like “I know you want it, you’re a nice girl.” What Feminist blogger to pounce in lA: “Call me cynical, but the expression does not really include the concept of mutual consent in sexual matters,” is insurgent. This “blurry line” is in line with what the magazine Cosmopolitan baptized in 2007 “gray rape,” defined as “of some sex share between consent and denial, in which neither side would want some of what the other “ provoking the ire of many feminists. Worse, according to Ipsos, over 30% of 18-24 year olds believe that “women can take pleasure in being forced in a sexual relationship.”
words that sweeten
a rape is a crime. Point. And “bad name an object is added to the misery of this world,” as outlined in the Tumblr “Words kill,” which aligns the way the media often fall a tone when it comes to violence against women. And that is a qualified sex offender “jobber who pushed the envelope a little too far,” a “man who slips” with a high school girl, a police officer who evokes “good feeling” with his victim raped. Sweeten to trivialize, excuse: some do not even try. As journalist magazine Joystick which, in 2012, commented after the game Tomb Raider in which the famous virtual heroine Lara Croft is a victim of sexual assault: “Make undergo such tortures to one of the most iconic video game figures, this is just great. And if I dared, I would say it’s pretty exciting. “ Edifying.
Denying the importance rape
According to Ipsos, 41% of French people still underestimate the number of rapes. While 84,000 rape or attempted rape are always committed on average each year in France. It probably happen “to more than 200 000″ including minors, the first victims of sexual violence, according to the traumatic memory association, which is preparing to launch a campaign against the denial.
(1) Survey conducted via the Internet from 25 November to 2 December, with a sample of 1,001 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, by the quota method.
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