In my Human Sexuality class today someone brought up the condom with spikes in it that was invented for women to protect themselves from rape.
I obviously participate wholeheartedly in that class and when the professor asked why it could be a bad thing (looking for an answer about how women could use it for revenge against men who have slighted them which… ugh that’s a whole separate issue) I talked about how it is another manifestation of rape culture. Another example of women being given tools to avoid rape instead of men being instructed to not rape. When I said “rape culture” some of the people in my class laughed like I was joking and I thought I was going to EXPLODE and then I sort of did and went on a little tirade about what rape culture is and why it’s real. And my professor said “I’ve never really thought about that. It is kind of weird that I teach my daughter to not get raped but would never think to tell me son to not rape.” YES, PROFESSOR. THAT IS WEIRD. I really want to love this class but it might be the death of me.