Abu Ghraib?

Here is an article that I found online today about the Steubenville rape case:

http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/03/steubenville-rape-cultures-abu-ghraib-moment

I liked it a lot because I thought it brought up a good point: Do we really live in a society where rape is celebrated and paraded all around the internet? Yes, yes we do. But WHY is that? It is very puzzling to me. The article compares what happened in Steubenville to Abu Ghraib (where American soldiers took pictures of themselves torturing political prisoners while they [the Americans] were smiling and laughing, standing on the prisoners, etc). I think that would be an okay comparison.

The article asks what kind of society teaches people that it is okay to rape someone and them post pictures online. Here is the article's answer:

"Only one in which women's autonomy and right to safety counts for so little that these rapists, and those who held the cameras, felt themselves 'perfectly justified'. Only one in which rape and sexual humiliation of women and girls is so normalized that it does not register as a crime in the minds of the assailants. Only one in which victims are powerless, silenced, dismissed. "

I suppose that I would have to agree, and I see this played out in society. I saw a picture on Facebook the other day that said: We live in a culture that teaches women how not to get raped, when instead it should teach men not to rape." I think that is true. How many times in your life have you been told to "be on your guard" in a dark place, a parking garage, etc. How many Self-Defense for Women classes are taught all around the USA? I believe that if we changed how we approach rape as a society/culture (that it is awful, shouldn't/won't be tolerated, etc) then we can eliminate the need to teach women "how not to get raped." I believe that we would have to completely change how we look at women/femininity. We would have to stop devaluing women and the private sphere that women are so often a part of.