Whenever arguing with a higher status male your inferiority complex would cause you to panic. You would feel uncomfortable in the rarely entered territory of the alpha male, in which one stands up for himself and refuses to be made to feel inferior by anyone. As a result your voice would raise, your speech would quicken and you would begin to make quick and erratic movements. Even as you were defending yourself in an heroic fashion your omega male traits would show themselves. Have you ever heard of an omega male?
They typically emphasize that men are supposed to be unemotional, powerful and successful beings. Furthermore, these codes, or more accurately, “set of rules” allow other males to constantly scrutinize their peers, determining if they measure up to what is expected of them. This never ending judgment of actions and behaviors causes severe issues in various aspects of a male’s life, for example, risk-taking, anger management, depression, health risks, and drug abuse to name a few. Evident in the style the article is written in, the audience this piece is aimed toward is men. Moreover, the article is directed to those men that follow the “guy code” since they are the one who relate the most to the situations described.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) in America occurs daily in epidemic proportions. IPV is a real medical issue. The victim’s medical complaints run the gambit of secondary symptoms such hypertension to obvious signs like broken bones. It is always difficult to ascertain how many women are being victimized because intimate partner violence is in the top ten underreported crimes. There are some situations where women are the perpetrators of the abuse and men are the victims, but usually clinicians only see women seeking treatment for abuse.
It is a known cultural difference that men usually dominate the world. There are many times when women are abused that they do not file charges against their assailants. Some of the governing assumptions that strengthen the mainstream explanation of the intimate abuse that many women face are as follows: First, men batter women because they are privileged, physically, financially, and socially; it is under the assumption in this belief that we need not understand the violence behind men’s violence beyond that point of the patriarchal explanation. Second, women stay in abusive relationships because of patriarchy. Third, the criminal justice system is sexist.
The last is “Give ‘em Hell” this says that men should show their aggression and take risks. Men are constantly in competition with other men to see who is manlier. The question is what is the definition of being “manly”? In his article, Kimmel goes over “Gender Police” which is the guys’ peers. These peers constantly watch and judge other men to see if he does anything to ruin his man
Web. This article states it’s been proven that females are more mature with the decisions they would make in a combat zone but ounce under fire, or in combat, females are more likely to panic. They illustrate this by giving a real life experience with this issue. It also gives the statistics of women dying since we’ve slowly been accepting women in small parts of combat roles. I don’t know if those statistics can be accurately used since some of the dead come from rapid deployment units, which go to combat all the time and they’re probably not dying at a high rate in those units.
One author writes “healing is crucial not just for victims, but also for offenders. Both the rehabilitation of offenders and their integration into the community are vital aspects of restorative justice. Offenders are treated respectfully and their needs are addressed. Removing them from the community, or imposing any other severe restrictions, is a last resort. It is thought that the best way to prevent re-offending is re-integration.” Processes of this nature are sometimes all the victim wants.
Often feelings of extreme guilt arise and many become depressed, even before they follow through with the procedure. Women suffer emotional and physical turmoil for a long time, and in some cases it can last a lifetime. There seems to be no good to come out of having an abortion. It causes pain and suffering, not happiness and reassurance. The side affects, whether it be emotional or physical, are too much for someone to bare.
VERBA Manon 14133194X Sexual harassment in the workplace: Characteristics of harassers and psychological effects on women 1. Introduction For several years, women have been much more present in the workplace, and too many of them have experienced sexual harassment. In industrialized countries, 42 to 50% of the female workers have been victims of harassers (Study on Sexual Harassment, Arosha Adikaram). In the last twenty years, women started to complain about sexual harassment instead of thinking of it as a normal act. Sexual harassment is defined as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that interferes with one’s employment or work performance or creates a hostile
A very large number of crimes, especially domestic violence against women make it very important nowadays to know how to defend themselves, and people around them physically. In the past decades, the issue of domestic violence against women, which is physical, psychological, and sexual violence in an intimate partnership has not yet significantly decreased all over the world. All over the globe, campaigns have started to solve this very affecting issue, and studies to explore the reasons for this kind of behavior towards women have been issued. In 1994, the American group “Violence Against Women Act”, shortly called the VAWA, was founded for the purpose of improving social service for victims of domestic violence, and improving criminal justice enforcement and intervention. The VAWA created several guidelines to avoid domestic violence, and protect women.