On the ABC segment, " What Would You do ", two actors stage a scene where a woman is visibly intoxicated and a man is trying to drag her away to rape her in his hotel room. ( There is a difference between sex and rape).
The first half of the video is pretty faith-restoring, because it shows women and men standing up against a perpetrator who appears to be intentionally taking a victim away so that he can rape her, although no one mentions the word rape, only that he's "taking advantage of her." The video takes a petrifying turn at 6:40 when two married men come in. The fact that they encourage the man to rape the woman is bad, but the fact that we later learn (at the 8:00 minute mark) that one of them is an off-duty cop is horrifying. Take a look.
http://youtu.be/6QcLs98NeJY
One in five women will be a victim of rape at some point in her life. Women who are between the ages of 16-24, are four times for likely to get raped than any other population group. It doesn’t keep happening because alcohol exists, it keeps happening because men who rape get to joke about it with off-duty cops. If the people who are supposed to be protecting women, buy into rape culture, it’s not surprising that rape remains the most unreported crime.
Even if alcohol was prohibited for every woman tomorrow, rape would still happen. Booze and short skirts don’t cause rape; rapists do. The more we focus on the victims, the less we focus on the rapists. Until perpetrators are held accountable, they will have no reason to change. Let’s make it harder to rape, not easier to blame the victim.
The origin of this story comes from http://www.policymic.com/articles/69867/this-off-duty-cop-proves-what-young-women-know-about-who-s-really-to-blame-for-rape
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