Rape Culture Are Not Hysterical Summary

In the article “It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria” by Caroline Kitchens a stance on rape in America is taken. Kitchens discusses the grave rape conflict of America, and goes about making her audience believe that rape “culture” is not an intelligent idea. Kitchens argues that the idea of rape culture has led to hysteria. From Kitchens’ word choice it is obvious that her tone is informative yet contemptuous. She mocks the idea of others by calling them, or the way they choose to think, hysterical. In response to Kitchens’ article, “Rape Culture Is Very Real; We Are Not Hysterical” was written by Abigail Nutter. Instead of agreeing with Kitchens, she wrote on a very different stance. Nutter stated that rape culture is not a thing of hysteria. She took her audience in the direction of supporting the idea of rape culture. The tone in her article was both indignant and serious. Both articles influence their audience that rape is a crime, they …show more content…
She explains to her audience that Kitchens simply using the word “hysterics” on the topic of rape is disrespectful. “Reducing a traumatic and life-altering crime like rape to ‘hysterics’ is harmful and dangerous on so many levels,” Nutter informs. She goes out to say that women are not reacting in a crazy manner. She also writes along the lines that women who believe in rape culture are not going out stating “rapist” as the word “witch” was spoken in an earlier century. This idea related to the Salem witch trials. She uses this argument due to the fact that the people of Salem were hysterical to have accused someone of witchcraft. The activist who believe in rape culture have statistics and facts to support their ideas unlike the hysterical people of Salem. Nutter also brings to her audience’s attention that women are not the only victims of rape; all genders and sexualities have experienced