{"quotes":[{"text":"Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviors as survivors of combat: flashbacks, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, depression, isolation, suicidal thoughts, outbursts of anger, unrelenting anxiety, and an inability to shake the feeling that the world is spinning out of control.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["rape","rape-culture"],"id":11236,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces.","author":"F. H. Batacan","tags":["crime","f-h-batacan","marital-rape","rape","rape-culture","smaller-and-smaller-circles"],"id":11866,"author_id":"F.+H.+Batacan"},{"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.","author":"Scaachi Koul","tags":["alcohol","conspiracy","drinking","intoxication","party-culture","rape","rape-culture","surveillance"],"id":30080,"author_id":"Scaachi+Koul"},{"text":"I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear—what happens when it’s over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse?","author":"Amber Dawn","tags":["rape","rape-culture"],"id":32126,"author_id":"Amber+Dawn"},{"text":"Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["culture","judgment","justice","positive","positive-thinking","rape","rape-culture","viciousness","victim","victim-blaming"],"id":42407,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice.","author":"Dennis R. Miller","tags":["rape","rape-culture","women-s-rights","women-s-strength"],"id":47081,"author_id":"Dennis+R.+Miller"},{"text":"The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn't a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish \u0026 control others.","author":"Steph Guthrie","tags":["rape","rape-as-a-weapon","rape-culture","rape-jokes","say-no-to-rape-jokes","self-control"],"id":66254,"author_id":"Steph+Guthrie"},{"text":"We teach our girls how not to get raped with a sense of doom, a sense that we are fighting a losing battle. When I was writing this novel, friend after friend came to me telling me of something that had happened to them. A hand up their skirt, a boy who wouldn’t take no for an answer, a night where they were too drunk to give consent but they think it was taken from them anyway. We shared these stories with one another and it was as if we were discussing some essential part of being a woman, like period cramps or contraceptives. Every woman or girl who told me these stories had one thing in common: shame. ‘I was drunk . . . I brought him back to my house . . . I fell asleep at that party . . . I froze and I didn’t tell him to stop . . .’ My fault. My fault. My fault. When I asked these women if they had reported what had happened to the police, only one out of twenty women said yes. The others looked at me and said, ‘No. How could I have proved it? Who would have believed me?’ And I didn’t have any answer for that.","author":"Louise O'Neill","tags":["feminism","rape-culture","women-s-rights"],"id":80500,"author_id":"Louise+O%27Neill"},{"text":"When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["rape","rape-culture"],"id":89612,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their colour, their breathing, their timid manner, their slight resistance, that is the language nature gave them for your answer. The lips always say 'No,' and rightly so; but the tone is not always the same, and that cannot lie. Has not a woman the same needs as a man, but without the same right to make them known? Her fate would be too cruel if she had no language in which to express her legitimate desires except the words which she dare not utter.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["clichés","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","misogyny","no-means-yes","patriarchy","rape-culture","stereotypes","women"],"id":98334,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}