It’s a sociological concept for a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality. Many people think that rape happens when a random woman is attacked by a stranger that has been watching her or it can be someone she knows, someone she has befriended but that's not the only way it happens. Rape Culture is such a big thing and many people are pushing it away and not realizing how much it is affecting women's. There are many women from the ages 18-34 being raped and sexually assaulted not being able to speak up about what happened to them, scared of what people will say about them. They know that the law will be on the men’s side so they chose not to say anything. Women are being sexually assaulted because of what they wear, just because a woman wears something doesn’t mean she is asking for it. Every 73 seconds an American is being sexually assaulted.
A woman can be getting raped without even knowing that she is. Over 90% of victims know their offenders, half of the offenders is a family member. About 5.0% of women get pregnant due to being raped, many women go to abortion as there second chose 11.8% of women get an abortion. Some women don't even know they are pregnant until the second trimester so a 5.9% of them take them to an adoption center. Rape is the cause of many unwanted pregnancies, and people still don't see how big rape culture is and how there aren't many laws because most men get away with it and that isn’t fair. When a woman gets rape people say “she asked for it”, “look at what she was wearing”, “she’s just making it up”, like how can a woman make up something like this, this is something that can be made up. Just because a woman is wearing something doesn’t mean she is asking for it.
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In an article written by Kaelyn Forde, she talks about a woman who got raped two times, and how she didn’t speak up or anything. Her name is Alison Turkos she was 16 when she first got raped by a 19-year-old at a friend’s graduation party. She remembered going downstairs and everyone was clapping as if to indicate that was a great thing. When her dad came to pick her up she remembered telling herself “I will never tell a f***ed soul about this, I felt so dirty, I felt so disgusting, I felt like it was my fault.” Many victims feel like its there fault things like this happen to them, this might be why many girls feel like they can’t speak up. They are also scared about what people will tell them.
Women don’t ask to get raped and that's one thing that men don’t understand when a woman says no it's no. In an article called Memo to our Rape Culture: Girls are not a prey written by Holly Kearl state that 71% of women nationally have faced street harassment. Most of the harassment being made is by older men not boy the women's age. A woman stated that “ A man in his thirties pulled his car up and rolled down the window and asked if he would give me 100 dollars if I would come in his car and have sex with him”, I was 13 she stated. Little girls shouldn’t be experiencing these kinds of stuff. Many of the men who rape women don’t even last a day behind bars. 34.1% of American Indian/Alaska Native rape women.
Women are getting pregnant due to getting raped, many chose to have the baby but others chose to have an abortion. 1% of women have an abortion, 4 states have passed 6-week abortion bans in 2019 many don’t have a choice to get an abortion, they don’t want to keep the baby because it will remind them about what happened to them. Abortion shouldn’t be an option, women who get raped should know that they should get checked up or at least be able to get a plan B. There are many options instead of having an abortion. In an article called Rape and incest account for hardly any abortions. So why are they now a focus? They talk about how in Alabama they passed a law banning abortions at any time period with no exceptions for rape or incest, only when the mother’s health is at risk. In Ohio and Mississippi, they passed a similar law. In a way, this is a good thing and a bad thing, because it the women's choice if they want to keep the baby or not. Also, it's a good thing because they wouldn’t be killing an innocent baby.
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