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title: "Best Rape-culture Quotes"
description: "Browse 88 Rape-culture quotes by 55 authors. Discover the best Rape-culture sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I don’t care if men accused of assault have good relationships with their wives or daughters or women they deem valuable. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tavi-gevinson/i-don-t-care-if-men-accused-of-assault-have-good-relationships-with/)

[Tavi Gevinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tavi-gevinson/)

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> [“Rape Culture is a culture where we are inundated, in different ways, by the idea that male aggression and violence towards women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/rape-culture-is-a-culture-where-we-are-inundated-in-different-ways-by/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

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> [“By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-merryn/by-opening-the-door-to-my-life-it-is-my-hope-and-mission-to-shed/)

[Erin Merryn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-merryn/)

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> [“He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it all. Maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-alderman/he-feels-excited-he-feels-ashamed-he-wants-to-talk-to-her-but-he-is/)

[Naomi Alderman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-alderman/)

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> [“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-merryn/imagine-the-message-that-sent-to-my-sister-and-me-a-cousin-violates/)

[Erin Merryn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-merryn/)

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> [“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sierra-d-waters/no-amount-of-me-trying-to-explain-myself-was-doing-any-good-i-didn-t/)

[Sierra D. Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sierra-d-waters/)

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> [“It doesn’t matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/krista-ritchie/it-doesn-t-matter-if-she-wanted-it-or-not-no-self-respecting-man/)

[Krista Ritchie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/krista-ritchie/)

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> [“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-brindley/rape-is-so-particularly-traumatic-and-so-meaningful-in-so-many-ways/)

[Sandra Brindley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-brindley/)

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> [“Jokes and media slurs about rape and its survivors not only desensitize the issue but also have an impact on rape conviction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-saunders-head-of-the-crown-prosecution-service/jokes-and-media-slurs-about-rape-and-its-survivors-not-only/)

[Alison Saunders head of the Crown Prosecution Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-saunders-head-of-the-crown-prosecution-service/)

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> [“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sierra-d-waters/the-story-of-my-birth-that-my-mother-told-me-went-like-this-when-you/)

[Sierra D. Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sierra-d-waters/)

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> [“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/originally-and-naturally-sexual-pleasure-was-the-good-the-beautiful/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

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> [“Talk of "witch-hunts" conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-smith/talk-of-witch-hunts-conceals-an-inconvenient-fact-men-charged-with/)

[Joan Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-smith/)

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> [“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnostic-zetetic/it-s-the-process-of-being-minimized-invalidated-silenced-it-s-the/)

[Agnostic Zetetic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnostic-zetetic/)

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> [“Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-e-williams/rape-culture-is-a-concept-of-unknown-origin-and-of-uncertain/)

[Joyce E Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-e-williams/)

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> [“How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rion-amilcar-scott/how-we-diminished-her-and-in-turn-ourselves-turned-parts-of-her-body/)

[Rion Amilcar Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rion-amilcar-scott/)

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> [“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/teach-her-to-question-men-who-can-have-empathy-for-women-only-if-they-3/)

[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/)

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> [“Summary There is a small group of cases, initially treated as rape where there is no evidence of an assault: primarily where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-kelly/summary-there-is-a-small-group-of-cases-initially-treated-as-rape/)

[Liz Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-kelly/)

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> [“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-l-whitfield/while-some-accused-and-convicted-child-molesters-have-inappropriately/)

[Charles L. Whitfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-l-whitfield/)

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> [“I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but every woman knew: Don't open your door to a stranger, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-remember-the-rules-rules-that-were-never-spelled-out-but-every/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yours alone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-leblanc/you-own-your-body-you-own-your-body-you-own-your-body-your-center-and/)

[Jeanette LeBlanc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-leblanc/)

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> [“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-chamberlain/there-should-be-a-public-outcry-about-what-happened-to-me-and-other/)

[Diane Chamberlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-chamberlain/)

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> [“Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-smith/roache-s-statement-after-his-acquittal-was-dignified-but-his/)

[Joan Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-smith/)

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> [ “The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance \[RMA\]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, &… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-n-baugher/the-prediction-of-false-rape-related-beliefs-rape-myth-acceptance-rma/)

[Shannon N. Baugher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-n-baugher/)

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> [“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scaachi-koul/the-mistake-we-make-is-in-thinking-rape-isn-t-premeditated-that-it/)

[Scaachi Koul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scaachi-koul/)

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> [“How come there's no commandment that says "Thou shalt not rape"? Did God ask Mary for consent before he put a baby…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-markus-malloy/how-come-there-s-no-commandment-that-says-thou-shalt-not-rape-did-god/)

[Oliver Markus Malloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-markus-malloy/)

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> [“The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-chamberlain/the-hostility-and-venomous-response-the-topic-of-sexual-trauma-and/)

[Diane Chamberlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-chamberlain/)

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> [“Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/rape-culture-is-a-funny-thing-people-gloss-over-some-pretty-shitty/)

[wildbow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wildbow/)

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> [“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sierra-d-waters/he-told-me-that-if-i-hung-up-he-d-do-it-he-would-commit-suicide-he/)

[Sierra D. Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sierra-d-waters/)

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> [“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-merryn/she-was-so-upset-about-a-blog-that-maybe-a-total-of-six-people-read/)

[Erin Merryn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-merryn/)

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> [“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sierra-d-waters/today-i-wore-a-pair-of-faded-old-jeans-and-a-plain-grey-baggy-shirt-i/)

[Sierra D. Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sierra-d-waters/)

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> [“Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/njovana-watts/young-girls-frequently-report-that-their-early-sexual-experiences/)

[Njovana Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/njovana-watts/)

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> [“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sierra-d-waters/it-is-not-a-single-crime-when-a-child-is-photographed-while-sexually/)

[Sierra D. Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sierra-d-waters/)

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> [“They say rape is the practice of sexual intercourse without consent but in my case, I did consent. I knew it wasn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lunga-no-lia-izata/they-say-rape-is-the-practice-of-sexual-intercourse-without-consent/)

[Lunga Noélia Izata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lunga-no-lia-izata/)

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> [“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-stockton/i-am-not-sure-if-we-are-numbed-to-the-reality-of-rape-but-here-s-the/)

[Christine Stockton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-stockton/)

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> [“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-chamberlain/in-1996-dorothy-mackey-wrote-an-op-ed-piece-violence-from-comrades-a/)

[Diane Chamberlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-chamberlain/)

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> [“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leora-tanenbaum/when-a-stranger-on-the-street-makes-a-sexual-comment-he-is-making-a/)

[Leora Tanenbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leora-tanenbaum/)

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> [“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/ungratified-sexuality-is-readily-transformed-into-rage-prison/)

[Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/)

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> [“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-lewis/and-there-s-one-other-matter-i-must-raise-the-epidemic-of-domestic/)

[Stephen Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-lewis/)

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> [“The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/the-fact-is-rape-is-utterly-commonplace-in-all-our-cultures-it-is/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

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> [“One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trouble-and-strife/one-year-later-the-society-claimed-victory-in-another-case-which/)

[Trouble and Strife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trouble-and-strife/)

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## Top authors on Rape-culture

- [Sierra D. Waters 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rape-culture/sierra-d-waters/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erin-merryn-33738.jpg) Erin Merryn 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rape-culture/erin-merryn/)
- [Diane Chamberlain 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rape-culture/diane-chamberlain/)

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                        "text": "“Summary There is a small group of cases, initially treated as rape where there is no evidence of an assault: primarily where a third party makes the report and the victim subsequently denies; or where the victim suspects being assaulted while asleep, unconscious or affected by alcohol/drugs but the medical/forensic examination suggests no sex has taken place. How the police should designate such cases is problematic. - Eight per cent of reported cases in the sample were designated false by the police. - A higher proportion of cases designated false involved 16- to 25-year-olds. - A greater degree of acquaintance between victim and perpetrator decreased the likelihood of cases being designated false. - Cases were most commonly designated false on the grounds of: the complainant admitting it; retractions; evidential issues; and non co-operation by the complainant. - In a number of cases the police also cited mental health problems, previous allegations, use of alcohol/drugs and lack of CCTV evidence. - The pro formas and the interviews with police officers suggested inconsistencies in the complainant’s account could be interpreted as ‘lying’. - The authors’ analysis suggests that the designation of false allegations in a number of cases was uncertain according to Home Office counting rules, and if these were excluded, would reduce the proportion of false complaints to three per cent of reported cases. - This is considerably lower than the estimates of police officers interviewed.\" A gap or a chasm?: attrition in reported rape cases.”",
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                        "text": "“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions by claiming that traumatic amnesia does not occur in child sexual abuse, workers in the field of trauma psychology have accumulated solid empirical evidence over the past 100 years that it does occur and is common. Its existence and natural history are documented throughout the clinical literature. from: Traumatic amnesia: The evolution of our understanding from a clinical and legal perspective, Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1997”",
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                        "text": "“I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but every woman knew: Don't open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. Make him slide his ID under the door. Don't stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, don't turn to look. Don't go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night. I think about laundromats. What I wore to them: shorts, jeans, jogging pants. What I put into them: my own clothes, my own soap, my own money, money I had earned myself. I think about having such control. Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. No one whistles. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from.”",
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                        "text": "“You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yours alone. In this world – this world of rape culture of ingrained misogyny and violence done against girls and women – you will encounter and absorb messages your entire life that place you on trial for the crime of existing as female in this world. That will question your right to wear or speak or move through the world in the way that you do. That will seek to harm you in ways large and small. As a woman, you will hold stories that sometimes feel too painful to hold. As your mother, that brings me to my knees. I grant you the strength to know that this too, you will survive. I promise you I will protect you with every ounce of life in my body. And where I cannot protect you from this world, I will love you inside of it – fierce and holy and precious beyond all knowing.”",
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                        "text": "“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown “the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has the right to entrust the interest of myself and my children into the hands of such an evil bunch of men? I did not occupy my rightful place in 1976. 45. (paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement, 1974.”",
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                        "text": "“Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the \"hysteria\" created by revelations about Jimmy Savile. It's a curious conclusion to draw from a \"not guilty\" verdict; there are courtrooms where the conviction rate is 100 per cent but they tend to be in totalitarian states. In serious criminal cases in England and Wales, the rate is around 82 per cent, and I would be seriously worried if every defendant were to be found guilty. The Independent, 9 February 2014”",
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                        "text": "“The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999) among a nonclinical sample of 258 male and female college students. Predictor variables included measures of attitudes toward women, gender role identity (GRI), sexual trauma history, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity. Using linear regression and testing interaction effects, negative attitudes toward women significantly predicted greater RMA for individuals without a sexual trauma history. However, neither attitudes toward women nor GRI were significant predictors of RMA for individuals with a sexual trauma history.\" Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Trauma History, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Shannon N. Baugher, PhD, Jon D. Elhai, PhD, James R. Monroe, PhD, Ruth Dakota, Matt J. Gray, PhD”",
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                        "text": "“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run into a girl who’s also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up to her and things get out of hand and before you know it, you’re being accused of something you’d never do. But men who rape are men who watch for the signs of who they believe they can rape. Rape culture isn’t a natural occurrence; it thrives thanks to the dedicated attention given to women in order to take away their security. Rapists exist on a spectrum, and maybe this attentive version is the most dangerous type: women are so used to being watched that we don’t notice when someone’s watching us for the worst reason imaginable. They have a plan long before we even get to the bar to order our first drink.”",
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                        "text": "“How come there's no commandment that says \"Thou shalt not rape\"? Did God ask Mary for consent before he put a baby in her? Or was God Christianity's first rapist?”",
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                        "text": "“The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden.”",
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                        "text": "“Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question. But you raise the reality of what they’re doing, and it’s a whole lot harder to shrug it off.”",
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                        "text": "“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.”",
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                        "text": "“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”",
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                        "text": "“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20 did a segment on rape in the military. By November four women came forward at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland, about a pattern of rape by drill sergeants. In 1997 the military finds three black drill sergeants to scapegoat. They were sent to prison and this left the commanding generals and colonels untouched to retire quietly. The Army appointed a panel to investigate sexual harassment. One of the panelists was the sergeant Major of the Army, Eugene McKinney. On hearing his nomination, former associates and one officer came forward with charges of sexual coercion and misconduct. In 1998 he was acquitted of all charges after women spoke (of how they were being stigmatized, their careers stopped, and their characters questioned. A Congressional panel studied military investigative practices. In 1998, the Court of Appeals ruled against Dorothy Mackay. She had been outspoken on media and highly visible. There is an old Arabic saying “When the hen crows cut off her head.”“This court finds that Col. Milam and Lt. Col. Elmore were acting in the scope of their duties” in 1991-1992 when Capt. Mackey alleged they harassed, intimidated and assaulted her. A legislative remedy was asked for and she appealed to the Supreme Court. Of course the Supreme Court refused to hear the case in 1999, as it always has under the feres doctrine. Her case was cited to block the suit of one of the Aberdeen survivors as well!”",
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                        "text": "“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected. Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both. Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.”",
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                        "text": "“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. \"Prison explosions\" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence, when 33,000 workers leave their employment site all at once precisely in spring, there can be no doubt that the unsatisfying sex-economic conditions in the Soviet Union are the cause. By \"sex-economic conditions\" we mean more than just the possibility of a regulated and satisfying love life; over and above this we mean everything that is related to pleasure and the joy of life in one's work.”",
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                        "text": "“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in the pattern of grotesque raping in areas of outright conflict from Darfur to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in areas of contested electoral turbulence from Kenya to Zimbabwe. Inevitably, a certain percentage of the rapes transmits the AIDS virus. We don’t know how high that percentage is. We know only that women are subjected to the most dreadful double jeopardy. The point must also be made that there’s no such thing as the enjoyment of good health for women who live in constant fear of rape. Countless strong women survive the sexual assaults that occur in the millions every year, but every rape leaves a scar; no one ever fully heals. This business of discrimination against and oppression of women is the world’s most poisonous curse. Nowhere is it felt with greater catastrophic force than in the AIDS pandemic. This audience knows the statistics full well: you’ve chronicled them, you’ve measured them, the epidemiologists amongst you have disaggregated them. What has to happen, with one unified voice, is that the scientific community tells the political community that it must understand one incontrovertible fact of health: bringing an end to sexual violence is a vital component in bringing an end to AIDS. The brave groups of women who dare to speak up on the ground, in country after country, should not have to wage this fight in despairing and lonely isolation. They should hear the voices of scientific thunder. You understand the connections between violence against women and vulnerability to the virus. No one can challenge your understanding. Use it, I beg you, use it.”",
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                        "text": "“The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday life, yet we all act as if it’s something shocking and extraordinary whenever it hits the headlines. We remain silent, and so we condone it…Until rape, and the structures – sexism, inequality, tradition – that make it possible, are part of our dinner-table conversation with the next generation, it will continue. Is it polite and comfortable to talk about it? No. Must we anyway? Yes.” ‘To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape”",
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                        "text": "“One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor did the court find on the issue. Fiona Reay, a 33 year old care assistant, accused her father of systematic sexual abuse during her childhood. The facts of her childhood were not in dispute: she had run away from home on a number of occasions and there was evidence that she had never been enrolled in secondary school. Her father said it was because she was ‘young and stupid’. He had physically assaulted Fiona on a number of occasions, one of which occurred when she was sixteen. The police had been called to the house by her boyfriend; after he had dropped her home, he heard her screaming as her father beat her with a dog chain. As before there was no evidence of repression of memory in this case. Fiona Reay had been telling the same story to different health professionals for years. Her medical records document her consistent reference to family problems from the age of 14. She finally made a clear statement in 1982 when she asked a gynaecologist if her need for a hysterectomy could be related to the fact that she had been sexually abused by her father. Five years later she was admitted to psychiatric hospital stating that one of the precipitant factors causing her breakdown had been an unexpected visit from her father. She found him stroking her daughter. There had been no therapy, no regression and no hypnosis prior to the allegations being made public. The jury took 27 minutes to find Fiona Reay’s father not guilty of rape and indecent assault. As before, the court did not hear evidence from expert witnesses stating that Fiona was suffering from false memory syndrome. The only suggestion of this was by the defence counsel, Toby Hed­worth. In his closing remarks he referred to the ‘worrying phenomenon of people coming to believe in phantom memories’. The next case which was claimed as a triumph for false memory was heard in March 1995. A father was aquitted of raping his daughter. The claims of the BFMS followed the familiar pattern of not fitting within the parameters of false memory at all. The daughter made the allegations to staff members whom she had befriended during her stay in psychiatric hospital. As before there was no evidence of memory repression or recovery during therapy and again the case failed due to lack of corrobo­rating evidence. Yet the society picked up on the defence solicitor’s statements that the daughter was a prone to ‘fantasise’ about sexual matters and had been sexually promiscuous with other patients in the hospital. ~ Trouble and Strife, Issues 37-43”",
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