How rape culture manifests as social and political phenomena : founding a new society in awareness and undertanding

Abstract

There have been many victories with social movements that sought the recognition of civil rights, equal rights, and human rights. However, even with continuous successes in those fields, women and men still undergo different social, cultural, and political pressures that shape them as they grow up into adulthood. Through an analytical and documental investigation, this research reaffirms that, because of social evolution, a specific phenomenon has been created, maintained, and normalized: rape culture. This socially integrated rape culture has abetted the expansion of sexual violence and sexual assault, as well as gender division. In other words, it separates men from other genders, in a way in which the latter might fear the former. Therefore, based on observations of a case study of the Netflix Original Series Unbelievable within a literary review, there is an extensive discussion that aims at forming awareness, to assist in the discovery of multidimensional and interdisciplinary solutions.