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Rape Myths
In the first paragraph in the article, it would be best to add, “rape myths vary among societies and cultures. However, they consistently follow a pattern whereby they blame the victim for their rape, express a disbelief in claims of rape, exonerate the perpetrator, and allude that only certain types of women are raped” (Harding 22). An example of a rape myth would be that they say she asked for it or she wore inappropriate clothing, she wanted it. But the fact is that it is impossible to ask to be raped or know if the victim wanted it or not. You do not ask for rape just like that. And clothing should not be a factor of getting raped. Another one would be, how the man did not mean to do such a thing or how it was not really rape. There are may rape myths that are obviouly not true. “One in five women and one in seventy-one men will be rape in their lifetimes.” “The fact is that rapists rape deliberately and repeatedly, not because they like sex, but because they like rape.”  (Harding 25).“Rape myths, like all myths, are designed to serve up psychological comfort, not hard facts.” Like how Grubb and Turner put it, “To believe that rape victims are innocent and not deserving of their fate is incongruous with the general belief in a just world: therefore, in order to avoid cognitive dissonance, rape myths serve to protect an individual’s belief in a just world” (23). Harding, Kate. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do About It.

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