Desensitization

Rape so not a laughing matter, but in today's world people think it is. Every day jokes about rape surround us, and people think it is okay. For example the shirt at the bar that says "we are not responsible for lost or stolen virginity." I guarantee the thought of rape didn't cross the designers mind  because he/she was too caught up in thinking it was funny and clever. The thought of rape was probably dismissed from the designers mind because rape is desensitized in today's culture. That shirt is a very specific example, but more than that there are students all over using the word rape as slang. Often people will say things like "wow I just got raped by that test" which should be far from okay, but nobody bats an eye when they Hear it. This needs to change in our culture because if rape is seen as a joke or simply as slang, it will never be seen as the serious issue that it is. In culture though, people follow others and unless something completely flips around in cultural views, this is going to be s problem. People don't want to admit that the things they say and do are wrong, but that is what is going to have to happen in order to make a difference in this. Why can't people react to rape the way they react to other crimes? What I want to know is where the shift was that turned rape into being so undermined.