Is there a rape culture at University?

Yes but LAD culture is "rape eqsue" in my opinion. I'm not saying everyone who is a LAD is a rapist, just that the ideas and actions that are bandied about aare very offensive and rap esque, if that makes sense

Yeah, pretty much, and it leads to a trivialisation of actual rape. Saying things like "I'm going to get her drunk before I make a move" "that's a typical pulling method!!!" is very rapey, and glorifies taking advantage of women, and that kind of thing is commonly said

Couldn't agree more. That's like saying there's a murder culture or a mugging culture. It's not a culture. It's some people committing awful acts. If a few doctors rape their patients, is there a rape culture in the medical profession?

The attitudes the article was on about are typical of lad culture..

haha okay I take the lois thing back, I think it was basically the list of feminist buzz words that gave me the "nagging mother" impression, but do you ever wonder if the "LAD" "culture" is more based on irony and not genuine intent to offend women? do you think it's caused men to rape women more often?

Yeah, pretty much, and it leads to a trivialisation of actual rape. Saying things like "I'm going to get her drunk before I make a move" "that's a typical pulling method!!!" is very rapey, and glorifies taking advantage of women, and that kind of thing is commonly said

Just read an article in the Guardian, seems to suggest there is a big rape culture at Universities. Question is, is there a culture like this? is it on the rise or has it been always like that? Is enough being done to tackle it?


http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2014/jan/27/rape-culture-campus

It's not "rapey". Rape is when you have sex with someone without their consent. It is entirely different to people chatting up others when they're a bit drunk. Alcohol makes people more open to social interactions and in a fairly reserved country like our own it's often the only thing that actually gets people talking to one-another.

If you assault and rape someone who is too drunk to know what they're doing, that's rape.

I think the attitudes the articles present are typical of fascist-liberal victim culture.

The women don't have to get drunk...

No but planning to get someone drunk with the intent it will be easier to **** them is really rapey

This bit is very correct, for me. A common accusation is that edgy jokes of a certain nature trivialise rape. If you ask me, that's extremely one eyed. Declaring that rape jokes (or whatever) are reflective or endemic of society and an indication of a 'rape culture' is frankly just as trivialising; and rather patronising.

Culture - the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.
No, calling it culture is where the problem starts off and is counter effective. The word 'culture' indicates that it happens a lot and is very normal (at least seen as normal). This is where a lot of confusing happens and leads to people debating the wrong things and focusing their energy on the wrong aspects. As a result, you get people dismissing that it actually does exist.
Words are powerful like that and the meaning is set. If it was expressed in a better terminology, more people will probably join in with getting rid of the 'culture' and stigmatising. This is where the 'feminist' movement lose a lot of credulity as they take an histrionic approach rather than a pragmatic approach.
Everyone hates a rapist or someone that sexually assault another person.
I use to struggle with this quite a bit. I'd do something idiosyncratic once or twice such for example dosing off in lecture and all of a sudden, I've got the reputation as that guy that dose off in lecture which is far from the truth and confused me when people starts joking about it.

Women go out showing all sorts of skin, tart-up, get drunk, get flirty, and then complain when men want to have sex with them. Hmm...

EDIT: I'm not condoning any of the behaviour that leads to rape or sexual offences.

The better question is why did the organisers think what they were doing was acceptable.


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It doesn't seem ironic. There are people who occasionally do it ironically, which is fine, but a lot of them for one seem to stupid to do it ironically, plus they seem to be very into it. It's not just offending women, it's offensive to pretty much everyone. LAD culture is basically just another word for being an obnoxious prick..