The author argues, against those who would delegitimate such usage as persuasive redefinition, that what are at stake are different theories of the nature of rape. “Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape.” Hypatia 9, no. 2 (1994): 134-51. The authors criticize the following views: only the rapist is accountable since only he commit the act; no one is liable since assault is a biological response to stimuli; everyone is guilty since men and women contribute to the sexual assault culture; and patriarchy is reliable but no person or group. In closing, this source to end the project with even thought it disagreement pieces of information that can be argue.
Summary of “Man Bashing” In this excerpt from Warren Farrell’s book “Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say, he focuses on a double standard men face in our society. This double standard is the toleration of abuse of men by women, while men abusing women is made front page news. Farrell points out that most of the time when a group of people get singled out, whether it be by race, religion, or gender, it is a criminal act, but when men are singled out as a certain stereotype, no one seems to mind. He goes on to talk about how it is always politically correct to refer to a person such as a mailman with an ambiguous tone, so you would say mail carrier, except when the person is bad or committing a crime, like gunman. Farrell mentions that men are called jerks almost one-hundred percent of the time, while the term is never used for women.
Get the fuck out after you're done". Not only is he referring to women as bitches and tricks, he also passionately expresses that women aren't worth anything more than to be used as a sex slave. Besides degrading women by saying what they want them to do for them, some artist state what they already have done to women. In one of the rap artist Lil Wayne's song, he openly tells all his sexual encounters with numerous women naming the song "Alphabet Bitches". After alphabetizing each woman with their personal sex express with the artist he ends the song repeatedly saying "These are my bitches, my Alphabet Bitches, I got bitches".
If anything, it offers the leeway for brothel owners, pimps, and johns to exploit women and children. And the government gets to part take that exploitation through taxation. If sex workers’ advocates are looking for a solution to violence against women under the current criminalized sex market, they should advocate for decriminalizing prostitution. Allow women to sell their bodies. But, criminalize buyers, pimps, and brothel owners who profit from taking away a woman’s divine rights over their own bodies.
Women and Men have consistently been held to different standards, especially in regards to sexuality. The winds of this societal hurricane are fueled by the sexual double standard. Starting in adolescence, boys and girls realize that the effect their sexual actions have on how they are viewed depending on their gender. Society perpetuates this double standard to the greatest extent through the media. Pipher argues that the wrath and destruction of the societal hurricane has always been focused on girls rather than boys, as girls experience the “short end of the stick” in terms of the sexual double standard.
Rap videos show rappers treating women like objects. They use women for their entertainment and then disregard them at will. Since music is an integral part of popular culture, children can be manipulated to believe that it is a standard to lower the status of women, as they do in rap videos. An example of this is in the rap video, Big Pimpin’, by Jay-Z. In the video, the rapper Jay-Z is on a massive
Society is immensely focused on eliminating prejudice words since it is believed they are violent. Eliminating words is not an easy task when context comes into play. Huckleberry Finn can use a word prejudice against African Americans and not cause as much controversy as the very utterance of the word by stranger. The author speaks about a memory on a subway when he over heard a group of teenagers using a derogatory term against homosexuals. He explains the fear he felt when he heard the term since he was homosexual himself.
Ethical issues such as naming rape victims are at the discretion of the publisher. People who are raped fear their name will be mentioned on the news and thus fail to report the crime. This is why most newspapers and news stations do not name rape victims. “Someone who is sexually assaulted becomes the victim three times: initially during the actual assault, second during the interrogation, and lastly when their name is published by the press. Society often judges rape victims to be as guilty as the rapist” (Pember 280).
Many of them are even unaware that they are even considered a sex offender to the public and to the law. Is it fair for the law and the public to victimize those teenagers who are unaware that they are committing such a crime? If a person under the age of seventeen has consensual sex with someone that is older than seventeen, then the older person will be convicted of a felon. Yes, even if it is consensual and they will have a felon of statutory rape on their record for the rest of their lives. Statutory rape is generally understood to mean “unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of consent, regardless of whether it is against the person’s will” (Olszewski
Due to the influences of the media teens believe it is ok to have lots of sex without taking proper precautions. There are many teens who do not even know the dangers that sex brings. Unprotected sex can lead to unplanned pregnancies, STD’s and HIV. While all of these effects of unprotected sex are bad, HIV is one that is increasing the most each day. HIV is a disease that is sweeping the nation due to multiple partners and unprotected sex.