Outing rape culture  This is a guest post by Jane Osmond. Jane
is a co-editor of Womenâ€™s Views on News, a researcher and
chair of a charity that works with women in street sex working.
Trigger warning for quoted rape threats.  Recently Geek Feminism
featured a link to the Womenâ€™s Views on News (WVoN) campaign
which is attempting to get Facebook to take down a particularly
offensive page entitled â€˜You know sheâ€™s playing hard to get
when your (sic) chasing her down an alleywayâ€™.  The main
thrust of the campaign is to get Facebook to acknowledge that by
allowing this page (and all that are similar) to remain on the
site, then Facebookâ€”as a powerful virtual entityâ€”is
perpetuating rape culture: a complex of beliefs that encourages
male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.  As
a writer for WVoN I came across this page when a link was pasted
on â€˜I bet we can find 1,000,000 Proud Feminists on
facebookâ€™; I then wrote the first post for WVoN, was ignored
by Facebook, sent out a medi