The Power of Popular Culture to Drive Change

Feminist scholars and activists see popular culture as a key source of our dominant ideas about sex and consent. Culture can reinforce many harmful ideas that feminists have identified as contributing towards sexual violence and rape culture, but it also has te potential to drive change. Audiences aren't passive and don't always read popular culture in exactly the same way we bring our own ideas and experiences to it. So what do audiences do with medium culture that tell us that potentialy? Qarse sexual situations are normal, romantic, or, in nicola gavey's words, just sex. Yes. And i want to say it here, like we're talking about fan fiction, obviously, but dubcon does