Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rape culture

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: rape -cul-ture
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The cultivation (growing or production) of rape.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture."
"In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes."
"To prevent further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need to understand what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses."
"Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent. Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality."
"Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault."
"Or "I wrote on rape culture my junior year at Brown / So I'm allowed to say what all his raps are about""

Etymology

From rape (“non-consensual sex”) + culture.

Usage

Inflected Forms

rape cultures (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

rapism

Synonyms

rapeseed culture

Questions

What does rape culture mean?: A culture, environment or society where rape or other forms of sexual assault are common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.
Where does rape culture come from?: From rape (“non-consensual sex”) + culture.

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