The document discusses using social media to combat rape. It defines rape and provides statistics on rape victims from different countries. It outlines different types of rape and notes that power is the main reason for rape. Issues discussed include portrayals of gender in Indian society and how increasing women's empowerment causes anxiety and frustration in some men. The document suggests possible online solutions like women confronting harassers on video or creating women-led transportation services to prevent assault.

1. Using Social Media to Combat
Rape
Werner Egipsy Souza

2. Definition
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving
sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or
more persons against another person without
that person's consent.

3. Statistics
• In 2007, India had more rape victims than the
United Kingdom and less than the United
States of America.
Source: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

4. Types of Rape
• Serial Rapists
• Acquaintance Rape
• Spousal Rape
• Group Rape
• Rape of Males
• Statutory Rape (where the victim is under 16)
Source: 2008 American Psychiatric Publishing, Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream, Robert I.
Simon M.D.

5. Main reason for Rape
• Power
Source: 2008 American Psychiatric Publishing, Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream, Robert I.
Simon M.D.

6. Issues
• In Indian society, the woman is portrayed as
the weakling, while the male is portrayed as
the bread winner and the physically superior
warrior.
• In today’s corporate scenario, with salaries by
women equaling if not domineering those
earned by men, men are losing their strangle
hold in the public home and office space.

7. Issues
• Men today, feel extremely mentally
threatened by their women, both in the
boardroom and the bedroom.
• This creates a huge anxiety which, coupled by
the increase in materialism and lack of mutual
love and sex, turns to frustration and
therefore aggression.

8. Media
• Ads for brands such as Fastrack, encourage
women to “Move On”, showing men to be a
fad rather than a fixture.
• Ads such as Axe, victimising women, showing
them as victims to a man’s overpowering
masculinity, leading to other deodorant
brands making even sleazier messages.

9. People
• Susan Brownmiller – Activist, Feminist and author
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
• Noomi Rapace – Actress, who played the punkish
geek Lisbeth Salander in The Girl Who Played with
Fire (where she takes revenge on her rapist), and
appeared in the latest Rolling Stone’s video Doom
and Gloom
• Stieg Larssen – Author of The Girl Who Played With
Fire, who witnessed a gang-rape at the age of 15 and
has been writing against sexual violence in his books

10. Possible Online Solutions
• Women turning aggressive on lecherous men
(Video)
• Create a Hollaback in your city, where women
post pictures and videos about street
harrassment
• Create women driving services, where women
drive around to help other women get home.
• Create campaigns around the Platinum day of
love , promoting making love over rape, better
than the Make Love not War slogans.