Oscar Chen Ms. Norton 2. May.2013 Rape Culture Rape culture has greatly influenced society and has caused women to sink in danger situations. Rape is ultimately caused by men’s urge to enjoy the power they can exert over women’s bodies. Rape not only includes sexual assaults but also serve violent and punishment for women. Rape has affected many cultures and women’s life that we cannot imagine.
This one is greatly affected by the media. A majority of musicians have problems with drugs, alcohol, public disorder and infidelity. Most come from broken families with toxic environments. They reflect their emotions in the songs they write which greatly influence listeners. The media likes to capture rock musicians using drugs at wild parties and acting irresponsible to get attention from people and increase magazine sales and ratings.
The bias that the media place on police statistics make it appear that the police force are more successful than they truly are, creating misleading statistics. This bias is formed as the police are a major source of crime stories and wish to portray themselves in a positive light and also due to the over exaggeration that the media places on crime. In some cases the media is seen as a cause of crime, as it has a negative effect on attitudes, values and behaviour. The media’s influence is seen to affect certain groups more than others, these groups are usually more susceptible to influence than others like the young, lower class and uneducated. The media influences these groups through many ways, such as imitation by creating a deviant role model encouraging “copycat” behaviour.
Others will say that they can’t explain it, but they know it when they see it. Emilie Buchwald, the author of Transforming a Rape Culture describes rape culture as “a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.” The people of a rape culture assume that violence is a fact of life when in reality it is not, and is actually the values and attitudes of a society, which are quite possible to change. Rather than teaching that people shouldn’t rape, they try to teach what to do to make it less likely that a rapist will choose you. The Marshall University Women’s Center explains that “Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety.” America has objectified sex to the point where it’s more about reaching a goal of obtaining sex than it is about intimacy and emotions. According to Becky Lockwood, the associate director at a center for women, this causes people to see sex as a commodity, making them think it is okay to do whatever they deem necessary to acquire it, even if that means violence.
PORNOGRAPHY Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn K0938972 INTRODUCTION From CNN news, 27 August 2009 “Model Kathleen Neill, 26, was arrested while posing for nude photos among classic nude sculpture in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was charged with public lewdness.” There is an argument among people, is she deserved to be arrested or not? What she did in the museum, should it be called pornography1 or art? As well as other obscenity2, pornography has always been a subject matter in art since prehistoric. Different cultures “judge” pornography in different ways in different periods of time.
The Ohio Rape Trial During the Summer two high school football stars took advantage of an intoxicated female classmate, this case has drawn lots of attention because of the two teen football stars not only raped a teen classmate they also took pictures of the girl and distributed the photos throughout the school district through main stream media such as texting, YouTube, and other sites on the internet. The reaction of the onlookers such as the ones who received the nude pictures of the intoxicated teen should have helped the plaintiff in the trial to put these two teens behind bars. The rapists or the two teen football stars should’ve never had taken advantage of an intoxicated classmate like they did not only did they rape her they sent nude pictures throughout the school to classmates and the girl even later stated that the two teen
It is necessary to take a closer look at whether or not violence in the media really is responsible for this development and then to examine what censorship may entail before taking such a far-reaching decision. Many concerned people, ranging from worried parents through to reputable psychologists, deplore the ever-present nature of violence in the media, claiming that this is the reason why people are increasingly prepared to commit violent acts. They argue that violence is being propagated as normal or even entertaining. Violence is in the newspapers, on the news, in film plots and in cartoons. Violence is a source of laughter in children's programs; films present it as staple fare; it is served as pseudo-information in sensation-hungry newspapers and on reality TV; and it is even glorified by some musicians in their lyrics and performances.
But, is pornography really that harmful? There are many reasons why the government is having trouble putting restrictions on pornography. As Cynthia Stark states in Social Theory and Practice," just because some find certain materials offensive is not a sufficient reason for restricting those materials." There has to be proper grounds for making such laws to prevent pornography distribution because either way you look at it, it goes against the free speech laws of the first amendment. Nadine Strossen of the ACLU had a good point when she said "the First Amendment contains no exception for sexual speech.
But overwhelmingly, the crimes were petty and many believed police officers only arrested them to give the local news media a show. After all, it was fairly indecent for women to walk around city streets waving their bras. This was a boon for the local and national media outlets. Overwhelmingly though, the amount of crime caused by women because of social inequality is minimal and not a great source of consternation to local, state, and national law enforcement. Social inequality based on cultural practices is much more prevalent however.
The men that rape women do it to feel powerful and in control. Those men see women as a way to get that power and control. Bad influences and atmospheres lead to those kind of men and they lead to the rapes of women. ( About Date Rape 2002) When a sixteen year old girl, Lani, had finally got a date with her crush , she was ecstatic. But she had given him too much credit as the sweetest guy on earth.