{"id":995,"date":"2011-09-14T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:22:37","slug":"haunts-it-wasn%e2%80%99t-sex-it-was-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t sex. It was rape."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, in Australia, a cadet was found guilty of two counts of having raped a woman cadet while she slept<\/a>. The rape occurred in 2009. He filmed the act, ostensibly as evidence for his mates. His lawyer claims the kid just wanted to fit in. A horrible, and all too familiar, story, and not only in Australia.<\/p>\n

The language of the coverage is telling. The woman was a `colleague<\/a>\u2019. Really? When did\u00a0 rape become a collegial act? \u201cCulture<\/a>\u201d comes into play as well. The military culture of \u201cwork hard, play hard\u201d is offered as part of the context. Really? Rape is, somehow, play?<\/p>\n

The most telling instance, in the BBC coverage of the story, is the link on their home page. There, the headline reads: \u201cFilming sex `rife at Navy base\u2019<\/a>\u201d. Only when a reader links to the actual article does the headline read, \u201cAustralia Navy cadet filmed rape ‘to be accepted<\/a>‘\u201d.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t sex. It was rape.<\/p>\n

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(Photo Credit: Jezebel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, in Australia, a cadet was found guilty of two counts of having raped a woman cadet while she slept. The rape occurred in 2009. He filmed the act, ostensibly as evidence for his mates. His lawyer claims the kid just wanted to fit in. A horrible, and all too familiar, story, and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5153,1336,1335,114,556,1334,5071],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australia","tag-colleague","tag-culture","tag-dan-moshenberg","tag-haunts","tag-military","tag-rape","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19273,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/19273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}