Rape culture perpetuates the belief that victims have contributed to their own victimization and are responsible for what has happened to them. Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by sexual violence or some combination of these. […]
Nowadays, raping about DIDI APP usually can be heard from the news in China. Many people sympathized the victims, while there were some people said it was girls’ revealing clothes led to their suffering and these girls deserved it. “Victims of sexual violence are often blamed for precipitating their own assault with their so-called “provocative” […]
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Get startedIn Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood creates a dystopian society where the freedom of women is stripped away because of the new Christian government. Through Atwood’s style of writing, she helps the reader understand the meaning of this oppressed society by using symbolism, biblical allusions, and repetition. Atwood gives us an insight on […]
Dystopian novels emphasize a sense of the powerlessness of the individual in the face of the oppressive and brutal government. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and George Orwell 1984 intensely dramatic scenes to heighten the idea of the powerlessness of the individual. George Orwell’s in his novel 1984 presents a totalitarian regime that uses […]
Sex workers have been around for a long time and always been looked down upon. Many people have disagreements on prostitution but they all are around the same reasonings: immortality. Beside the questionable moral aspect of prostitution, there are many benefits to legalizing sex workers. People tend to forget that along with other things that […]
Oprah Winfrey is the definition of resilience from not being able to afford clothes as a child and wearing potato sacks to becoming one of the world’s wealthiest and admired women proves that. (Elkins 2015) The road was not an easy one, but she navigated each bump to make it to the top. Opera’s childhood […]
Ted Bundy, or formally known as Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer, necrophiliac, and rapist. Bundy admitted to murdering and sexually assaulting 36 women across the United States. But, the exact number of women that Bundy has killed will never be known. It is estimated by experts, that the final tally may be […]
“On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.” Stated Project Sanctuary, Domestic Violence is violent or aggressive behavior in the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner. This is […]
‘If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,’ declared First Lady Hillary Clinton to the United Nations at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995 (PBS). Clinton, a staunch […]
Domestic violence is violence or destructive behavior abuse by one person which usually is a male figure against another which in most cases is a female figure. In a domestic setting such as in marriage or cohabitation. Speaker Jackson Katz an Anti-sexism educator speaks on how gender violence is a male’s issue as well as […]
Violence is defined as the behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. It’s a social problem that has been apart of human existence for centuries and takes a variety of forms, impacting millions of people all across the world. As a result, it is one of the top leading […]
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.” With that being said, I strongly disagree with the death penalty. David Hume’s wrote about “Enquiry concerning human understanding” and stated in those […]
The best four years of your life are known to be the ones spent in college, which is supposed to be an incomparable and unequivocally life altering experience. Students leave high school with the hope of making memories that’ll last a lifetime as well as finding a route towards a successful future. Knowing what students […]
In the month of November 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl from Ireland reported that she was raped by a twenty-seven-year-old man. Rape culture is already laced with many downfalls, including people’s need to defend rapists with fallacious arguments. The patriarchy is a dominant ideology that is prevalent globally and cripples society by mistreating and silencing women. […]
Unlike a large number of studies on lack of compassion and sexual offences, there is a lack of research into the correlation between eloquent and sexual offences. However, current research does emphasize the positive relationship between eloquent and sexual assault crimes. Brown et al. (2015) conducted a study of 2,514 male prisoners convicted of sexual […]
Usually, when people think about the military they think about the actual wars the soldiers are fighting. Very rarely do people think about the unspoken war that is being fought between fellow soldiers; that war is sexual harassment. It is very common in the military for women to be sexually harassed by fellow soldiers and […]
