Every seven minutes someone in America commits a rape & whether that's a football star beloved celebrity elected official member of the clergy or just an average Joe (or Joanna) there's probably a community eager to make excuses for that person In Asking for It Kate Harding combines in-depth research with an in-your-face voice to make the case that twenty-first-century America supports rapists more effectively than it supports victims Drawing on real-world examples of what feminists call "rape culture"from politicos' revealing gaffes to institutional failures in higher education & the military Harding offers ideas & suggestions for how we as a society can take sexual violence much more seriously without compromising the rights of the accused