{"id":2166,"date":"2006-03-14T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2006-03-14T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T19:52:13","slug":"anti-rape-ads-aimed-at-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Anti-rape ads aimed at men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a headline for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4803878.stm\">this story<\/a> on this evening&#8217;s news and had to wait for the full story.  A rape awareness campaign aimed at men?  A rape awareness campaign that tells men it&#8217;s rape if she doesn&#8217;t explicitly consent?  Sounds like a feminist&#8217;s dream come true.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sort of.  The first interview in the story was with a man (his identity concealed) who &#8220;thought he was having consensual sex&#8221; and found himself charged with rape.  Was I hoping too much when I thought an item about teaching men not to rape wouldn&#8217;t lean on the angle that some poor men get unfairly accused?<\/p>\n<p>The second interview was with a rape victim (identified by name and with her face shown) who hadn&#8217;t gone to court because it was her word against her rapist&#8217;s.  She said that &#8220;you can&#8217;t stop rape with just a few posters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The posters, the campaign, are a promising first step.  But oh, what a tiny step towards such a big problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: This comments thread is reserved for <strong>feminist, pro-feminist, and feminist-friendly posters only<\/strong>. If you suspect you wouldn&#8217;t fit into Amp&#8217;s conception of &#8220;feminist, pro-feminist, or feminist-friendly,&#8221; then please <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> contribute to the comments following this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a headline for this story on this evening&#8217;s news and had to wait for the full story. A rape awareness campaign aimed at men? A rape awareness campaign that tells men it&#8217;s rape if she doesn&#8217;t explicitly consent? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-criticism","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}