differentvoice: caraobrien:crashintome9:maniahum:rosietint:jaundicedeye: Ways this PSA completely, utterly fails: near-naked, faceless, disembodied women’s torso = dehumanization of women euphemizing rape as “having sex” in an anti-rape campaign implying the “first place you enter” is the victim’s body = more dehumanization low rape conviction rates means prison not much of a deterrent for rapists “What we’re left with, then, is an ostensible anti-rape campaign whose only success is more deeply entrenching tools and language of the rape culture. Huzzah.”via shakesville

differentvoice:

caraobrien:crashintome9:maniahum:rosietint:jaundicedeye:

Ways this PSA completely, utterly fails:

  • near-naked, faceless, disembodied women’s torso = dehumanization of women
  • euphemizing rape as “having sex” in an anti-rape campaign
  • implying the “first place you enter” is the victim’s body = more dehumanization
  • low rape conviction rates means prison not much of a deterrent for rapists


“What we’re left with, then, is an ostensible anti-rape campaign whose only success is more deeply entrenching tools and language of the rape culture. Huzzah.”

via shakesville

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