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I know I shouldn't say this, but anyone who joins a group like that and thinks rape is soooo hilarious and no big deal, really needs to be raped.
I wonder if it occurred to any of these jackasses that maybe some women on their FB friends list have actually BEEN raped and might not like to see something that is "pro-rape" popping up on their screen? Maybe even women they are close with? Idiots. #rapeculture
11/08/09
If you read the other article about college culture in the Herald, you'll see evidence of all kinds of horrific stuff like this happening at our residential colleges - the same college has a bar, which had graffiti saying 'she can't say no with a cock in her mouth' on the wall for weeks before being taken down. #rapeculture
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I'm a graduate from Sydney University and one of the residential colleges. They are closed institutions - students are encouraged to form an exceptionally tight knit community and will defend each other and their college to an almost ridiculous point. This has some beautiful repercussions, I have friends for life across the nation and my college allegiance will remain with me. But it also means dealing with problems within the community are exceptionally difficult. And there are problems (huge problems) but each college is different. The college I went to has been co-ed since the 1960's which means while it still has gender issues they are very different to those brewing in single sex or colleges that have recently gone co-ed. (My ex-master David Russell is the one speaking out now.)
And the issues go beyond sexual violence towards women. In my college their was a horrible hyper-macho culture that many of the men felt obliged to live up to. While women certainly cop the brunt of this negative culture, like most problems based around gender issues, it affects guys and girls and straight/gay/bi students at the college.
So each college has its own culture to tackle.
And the other issue is that it's not just a college problem. This is a University-wide, Sydney -wide, Australia-wide problem. Rape culture is a serious thing. The boys who are starting these groups are (*generalization ahead*) from very wealthy backgrounds, they're the elite of Sydney. They didn't pick up these attitudes in College. They just found a place where they think it's safe to express them. That's the highly terrifying thing.
11/08/09
To that end, I just searched under groups for rape and found the following:
No idea if this is an in group joke or what [www.facebook.com]
Group is fine, comments are fucked up [www.facebook.com]
"Joke" [www.facebook.com]
"Facebook rape" [www.facebook.com]
[www.facebook.com]
(there are a bunch of these groups)
Rape Islam [www.facebook.com]
Bro Rape [www.facebook.com] (again, there are a bunch of these)
Rape Club [www.facebook.com]
We stand for rape [www.facebook.com]
Where mutants rape you [www.facebook.com]
I don't even understand [www.facebook.com]
[www.facebook.com]
Rape Squad [www.facebook.com]
Anal rape [www.facebook.com]
Team Rape [www.facebook.com]
Rake Rape [www.facebook.com]
Team Rape [www.facebook.com]
Free Rape [www.facebook.com]
I only made it through the first hundred and forty, but there are a bunch that are either questionable or flat out fucked up.
Groups with the word rapist in their title include these winners:
[www.facebook.com]
[www.facebook.com] #rapeculture
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I only made it through 10/135 #rapeculture
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I've reported, and NADA. I think that the internet is just a breeding ground for psychopaths, finally getting validation they wouldn't have seen otherwise. #rapeculture
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1. Do you have a stupid group that you think people won't be interested in? Find a way to name it so that the acronym is R.A.P.E. and you're instantly clever! Good job idiots!!
2. A disturbing number of Hahahaha Rape! groups have high school / secondary school kids as creators.
3. The worst offenders are at the beginning of the list, as you work through you get to many more Stop Rape and Men Against Rape and Rape Survivor groups. I hope this is because the shitty ones are newer, and that they're newer because they get banned.
4. A lot of Yawn Rape and [Animal] Rape and other things are supposedly cute. You can tell because there are a bajillion of these groups. Har har.
Worst offender was a group called "I rape" with this description:
If you catch someone from across the room and rape them, you can join I Rape.
If you've been caught, you have to leave the group.
And the recent news was:
Nick-1, brunette-0
So, obviously I would like to murder that person a lot.
Which leads to my question: the reporting format lets you report either the title or the basic info or the recent news or the wall posts, etc. So I wasn't sure if I should report pages for everything, or pick the most obvious and move on. In the interest of covering a lot of ground I chose the latter, but I'm not sure if it was the most effective.
And because there was one single site that made me laugh out loud, I'll leave you all with this:
[www.facebook.com] #rapeculture
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Oh. Wrong. Just top three displayed. Over 15 000 exist but I'm hoping the majority are anti-rape. I pray.
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That said, we could organize flash-mob type net activism to report groups for abuse... maybe let's make Nov 17 at 7pm EST "reporting on rape culture hour"... and everyone with a feminist conscience and a facebook account could log on, search pro-rape groups, and start reporting with "rape culture" as the line in the "additional information" part. Anyone interested? Suggestions? #rapeculture
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I went through the first 100 rape groups (some of which are just in bad taste), the first 40 rapist groups (again, some are just bad taste) and the first 10 "surprise sex" posts. If 20 people who read this thread report the ones they find objectionable, I bet they will be gone soon.
I'll leave it to someone else to link to the other 500 rape groups and the other 125 surpise sex. It took me 30 mins to go through 150ish groups and find the ones that aren't offering support, reporting as I went. #rapeculture
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Well, I changed it to my real name when a couple friends I contacted didn't respond for a long time, then figured out it was me and laughed that they would have responded a lot sooner had they recognized my name. Not three days after putting my real name, an ex boyfriend I had to threaten with a restraining order and that got escorted off my high school campus for following and threatening me in the hallways TRIED TO FRIEND ME. I am completely freaked out about it. He can't see my profile, but just the idea that he would recognize my name nine years later and think I would want to talk to him just icks me out and makes me worried he'll find out I moved back to town and try to talk to me. #rapeculture
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If it turns out FB knew about this group and did nothing, I'll be highly disappointed. And will want to boycott the companies that advertise on facebook, to show my dissatisfaction. But my boycott will only work if I make sure that FB and their advertisers are aware that I'm boycotting, and why. I don't know how to do that. I don't buy Nestle chocolate anymore, but Nestle doesn't know that because I haven't sent them a letter. I suppose I should get on that, actually. #rapeculture
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Other groups might pop up afterwards, but take a stand report the one that offends you. If you don't, how can you ever complain about FB's policies/groups again? #rapeculture
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Really the only way they could do a 99.9% no offensive content thing would be to screen all photos and posts. #rapeculture
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I mean, I've seen whole groups of Facebook users dedicated to reporting hate groups of certain stripes. I'm a member of one that looks out for homophobic groups, and a new group to report gets posted pretty much every day. And Facebook has only been able to remove about five of the ones we've targeted. I'm sure they're pretty swamped with these requests.
11/08/09
I'm MUCH more upset at the people who participated in the group. #rapeculture
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That way, all the pro-rape fuckery will be out in the open and it wont be quite as easy for these fine citizens and leaders of the future to leverage daddy's connections into a sweet law or finance job. #rapeculture
11/08/09
Based on what I read, although I am horrified, I cannot say, particularly given the other things I keep seeing and seeing and seeing these days, that I'm surprised. #rapeculture