Your Responses

So in repsonse to my blog on Saturday, I've had a number of responses including links to other blogs on the topic of rape culture.

This is a great list of 10 things that we can change in our everyday lives to help put an end to rape culture, and it references this post suggesting the alcohol has replaced the short skirt in the method used to blame the victim, not the perpetrator. It's also the most common drug used in a date rape scenario.

The posts also reference *trigger warning* this post by Laurie Penny in the New Statesman, but having read the trigger warning at the top of the post, I can't bring myself to read through it.

Then we have some posts about what's being done. This and this both talk about the 'Don't be that guy' campaign in Canada - using adverts and billboards to try and change the behaviour of perpetrators, rather than telling women not to make themselves vulnerable. Go Canada for actually doing something targetted at solving the problem. I don't think adverts will solve it overnight, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.