{"id":2494,"date":"2011-11-05T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2011-11-05T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T18:02:57","slug":"telling-rapists-to-stop-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/telling-rapists-to-stop-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling rapists to stop rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mixed feelings about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk\/workspace\/uploads\/files\/rcs%5Btopten%5Dposta4fin.jpg\">this ad<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, I like the larger message it&#8217;s trying to get across (potential rape victims don&#8217;t need to stop rape&mdash;<i>rapists<\/i> need to stop raping), since there is altogether too much victim-blaming that happens (in the media, in the courts, etc.), especially around rape. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, as cheeky and witty as this list sounds on the surface, these tips are either useless (if only a joke) or sociologically troubling in a different way (if taken seriously) because they make it sound as if rapists don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re raping (it&#8217;s just a miscommunication or a misunderstanding). <\/p>\n<p>The goal of rapists isn&#8217;t to stop rape, so telling them how to do it makes no sense, just as the goal of a bank robber isn&#8217;t to stop robberies, so giving the robbers tips on how to stop robberies makes no sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mixed feelings about this ad. On the one hand, I like the larger message it&#8217;s trying to get across (potential rape victims don&#8217;t need to stop rape&mdash;rapists need to stop raping), since there is altogether too much victim-blaming that happens (in the media, in the courts, etc.), especially around rape. On the other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/telling-rapists-to-stop-rape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telling rapists to stop rape<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,269,571],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feminism","tag-rape","tag-victim-blaming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}