Often times, victims use drugs to "divert" and "distract" themselves from all the things they see, hear and experience. This becomes their "escape" to temporarily forget the hurtful things that they go through every single day. Discrimination. Studies show that LGBT teens are significantly more likely to experience discrimination in schools, workplaces and etc. 1/3 of LGBT youth who suffer from discrimination have reported the issue,
Reviving Ophelia Abusive relationships are not only reserved for married couples. There are plenty of teens caught up in these dangerous situations, and like older women, the teenage girls feel they are somehow responsible for the abuse they suffer at the hands of the men whom they love and who supposedly love them. This phenomenon is common among abused women. They make excuses for the beatings they take and their abusers insist it will never happen again. And yet it does the cycle of violence never end.
In the past years hazing has considered harmless pranks or comic antic associated within different groups. Hazing takes place in different areas such as college students who join a group and even in high school. Hazing can be a difficult social problem that can be shaped by leader who is operating the group or the organization. While hazing is occurring many people would tell the victims not to tell anyone or they would be hazed longer than others in the group, which can be called the “code of silence”. Hazing doesn’t only apply to men; it applies to women and teenagers.
Stereotypes in Media Stereotypes in media are often used with the intention of communicating a certain point across, most of the time for comedic purposes. However there comes a point where its use becomes problematic towards the group of people being represented. Earlier this year, PepsiCo ran an online commercial for Mountain Dew that caused quite a stir and left a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth over how incredibly racist it was. The ad featured a police lineup composed entirely of African American men and a goat, which was a reference to their previous ad, where a battered Caucasian woman was told to identify her attacker. The ad presents these African American men as rugged and typical thugs from the ghetto, and perhaps that image was
Girls are twice as likely as boys to be involved in cyber-bulling, as victim or perpetrator” “Cyber-bullying”. The Cyber-bullies motivations are a bit unorthodox; they do it because they think it’s funny. They may do it out of revenge, boredom, or to just have that feeling of control over
When a man is referred to as a ‘slut” it doesn’t associate to the actual definition used by society. But when a woman is called a “slut” it automatically associates her with a prostitute and she is then frowned upon by society. (Evalee) There seems to be a double standard when it comes to these male to female connotations .One in six women and one in thirty three men have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime. In our modern society women have been degraded to being pieces of meat or just a pair of sexy legs. (Evalee) Although women have come along way since their efforts in aiding the war, today women around the world still face prejudice, underestimation and gender discrimination only because they are women.
I know and saw a lot of people getting bullied for many reasons, no matter how old they are. Whether it’s their race, sexual orientation, personality, disability, or physical features. The Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment defines bullying to be: “...the use of physical, psychological and verbal aggression to intimidate others to submit to the will of another and/or cause emotional upset.” (BULLYING). It’s not right to cause such pain towards people, but people still do it. A few people I used to be friends with liked to bully others.
Examples are instant messaging, text messaging, blog, emails, etc. cyber bullying through proxy is when the bully gets someone else to do their dirty work. Cyber bullying by proxy is consider the most dangerous type do cyber bullying because adults often get involved and majority of the time the adults are unaware that they are bullying a child. Statistics says that nearly 46% of kids have been bullied online. 70% of students report seeing bullying online.
These actions are considered acts of terrorism because not only it is an attack on an individual but rather an attack towards the gay community as a whole, and they hope that the other people in the gay community may as well fear of soon becoming a victim. So many people overlook this community whenever they are asked to think about such crimes that are usually committed, in example, the ones dealing and focusing on prejudice towards religion and race. However, hate crimes committed against gays are rapidly rising and most definitely something needs to be done regarding these heinous crimes towards the gays in our community. Recent surveys on hate crimes and harassment directed at homosexuals only prove the increase in numbers. According to a survey held by the Human Rights Campaign in 2010, 92% of homosexuals who participated claimed that they were victims of verbal abuse or anti-gay threats, and 24% reported physical attacks towards them.
There are many situations and causes that lead to date rape. Parties that include alcohol or drugs or being alone and unsupervised on a date with a person someone just met. There might not even be a cause just that the person was a dangerous person. Most victims of rape are women. The men that rape women do it to feel powerful and in control.