<p>Rural Mexican communities face structural and cultural conditions, including geographic isolation, limited institutional resources, and entrenched gender norms that shape how families understand and respond to sexual violence. Despite Mexico’s large population, rural families remain underrepresented in psychological research, limiting insight into how gendered beliefs operate in high-vulnerability, low-resource contexts. This mixed methods study examined how machismo beliefs and rape myth acceptance shape attitudes toward sexual harassment and rape among rural Mexican parents of adolescents. Guided by an intersectional feminist framework, we assessed machismo (traditional machismo and caballerismo) and rape myth acceptance among 200 parents (<i>M</i>_age = 40.7; 79.5% women) and conducted in-depth interviews with a subsample of 16 parents (12 mothers, four fathers). Quantitative results indicated overall low endorsement of machismo and rape myths; however, traditional machismo was positively associated with rape myth acceptance, with this association stronger for women than men. In contrast, qualitative findings revealed widespread reliance on culturally specific rape-myth logics, and gendered parenting practices in everyday discourse. Integrated results highlight how rape myths and gendered beliefs are simultaneously rejected at the explicit level yet reproduced implicitly through family conversations about risk, shaped by gender, class, and geographic isolation. These findings underscore the need for culturally grounded, family-centered prevention efforts that explicitly address implicit rape-myth logics and gendered risk socialization in rural Latin American communities.</p>