I confess I don't understand "rape culture"

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12. I find the basic Wikipedia definition of rape culture instructive

There are lots of ways in which rape culture is manifested, but the most important, I believe, relate to impediments in prosecuting rape like other crimes.

Within feminism, rape culture is a concept that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society,[1] and in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape.[2]
Examples of behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, and trivializing rape. Rape culture has been used to model behavior within social groups, including prison rape and conflict areas where war rape is used as psychological warfare. Entire countries have also been alleged to be rape cultures.[3][4][5][6][7]
Although the concept of rape culture is used in feminist academia,[8] there is disagreement over what defines a rape culture and to what degree a given society meets the criteria to be considered a rape culture.[3]
Rape culture has been observed to correlate with other social factors and behaviors. Research identifies correlation between rape myths, victim blaming and trivialization of rape with increased incidence of racism, homophobia, ageism, classism, religious intolerance and other forms of discrimination.[9][10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture

The tendency to disbelieve victims, to hold them responsible for assaults against them by focusing on dress, drinking, and the woman's movements are all part of rape culture. Rape culture includes the shaming of victims, lately through social media, denouncing young rape victims as "sluts" and bullying them until they commit suicide, all while covering up for the offenders. Rape culture is the fact that only 3% of rapes end up with the perpetrator doing jail time (US stats from RAINN), means that rapists act with near impunity. The fact that any time a rapist is identified some people (like on DU) feel compelled to defend him and malign the victim. Rape culture is a whole series of attitudes that lead to the normalization of rape, the trivialization of its severity, and the low prosecution and conviction rates, as well as absurd jail terms of 30 days or sometimes nothing for what is a horrifically violent assault that destroys the lives of victims,

As Wikipedia notes, it is a concept explored by academics and not an invention of HOF posters. Anyone can verify that with a simple Google search.