[Noisebridge-discuss] Preventing Hacker Rape Culture

[anarchas]

Who the fuck cares about whether or not they're consciously
"advocating"?! That's entirely orthogonal to the issue which is whether
they're effectively reinforcing a cultural environment that
significantly underpins the widespread existence of rape in our society.
Sexual harassment and assault ARE part of rape culture because they
normalize certain contexts, perceptions, narratives, etc that build,
encourage, embolden and defend rapists.


On 10/26/2012 09:14 PM, Ever Falling wrote:
> I think acting inappropriately and behaving in sexually harassing ways
> don't quite extend all the way to advocating sexual violence and rape so i
> think maybe "rape culture" is too strong a term to be applied here. I think
> even those idiots who can't keep their hands to themselves and can't
> respect personal space would have to stop and say "whoa now who said
> anything about supporting rape?". I think sexual harassment seems like a
> more fitting term to use.