In today’s society, campus rape has been a big issue and it keeps happening over and over again in the U.S. colleges/universities campuses. For example, look at the Brock Turner case. His potential sentence of 14 years in prison, but he only gotten 6 months in jail, followed by 3 years of formal probation, and to be registered s sex offender for life because the judge chose to give him leniency to Turner for the harsh impact imprisonment that would have on him. I’ve been hearing about campus rape cases on the news and the punishment is less severe when the victim comes forward. I chose this topic because it affects us in our everyday lives and it could happen to me or one of my classmates. I wanted to know why the campuses are not taking the
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It says that, “The list of falsely accused young men subject to kangaroo court justice is growing apace. Students at Boston University demanded that a Robin Thicke concert be cancelled: His hit song Blurred Lines is supposedly a rape anthem. (It includes the words, “I know you want it.”) Professors at Oberlin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rutgers have been urged to place ‘trigger warning’ on class syllabi that include books like The Great Gatsby –too much misogynist violence” (Sommers). Campus rape can be taken to an extreme, but it hasn’t been taken seriously. When the CDC did a study of asking combination of straightforward and leading questions about rape, one-in-five number is derived from that study of survey; a much-cited CDC study, for example, first tells respondents: “Please remember that even if someone uses alcohol or drugs, what happens to them is not their fault”; then it asks: When you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people ever had vaginal sex with you.”; the CDC counted all such sexual encounters as rapes (Sommers). I think all unconsented sex (like being drunk, unconsciousness, or being on drugs) is rape; and no means …show more content…
I don’t know if it can. It has been going for years. It just has been pointed as a big issue that it cannot be avoided. It is against the law since it is a crime. The Title IX (which doesn’t say anything about the rapist being punished) is a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. There are plenty of ways to bring awareness to rape culture like: (1) have the school improve the educational program (The Campus SaVE Act requires all universities and colleges to provide comprehensive sexual assault and dating violence prevention education for all students, staff, and faculty) ; (2) host a demonstration like Slutwalk (women dressed in provocative clothing and marched to the police station to make a point that no one asks for sexual assault), Take Back the Night (an event that raises awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence by inviting participants to rally around campus in great numbers), or Denim Day (people are encouraged to wear jeans to raise awareness; when a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction because the survivor had worn tight jeans, women in the Parliament came to work the next day in jeans to show solidarity – background); or (3) create your own media campaign (Feminist
It says that, “The list of falsely accused young men subject to kangaroo court justice is growing apace. Students at Boston University demanded that a Robin Thicke concert be cancelled: His hit song Blurred Lines is supposedly a rape anthem. (It includes the words, “I know you want it.”) Professors at Oberlin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rutgers have been urged to place ‘trigger warning’ on class syllabi that include books like The Great Gatsby –too much misogynist violence” (Sommers). Campus rape can be taken to an extreme, but it hasn’t been taken seriously. When the CDC did a study of asking combination of straightforward and leading questions about rape, one-in-five number is derived from that study of survey; a much-cited CDC study, for example, first tells respondents: “Please remember that even if someone uses alcohol or drugs, what happens to them is not their fault”; then it asks: When you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people ever had vaginal sex with you.”; the CDC counted all such sexual encounters as rapes (Sommers). I think all unconsented sex (like being drunk, unconsciousness, or being on drugs) is rape; and no means …show more content…
I don’t know if it can. It has been going for years. It just has been pointed as a big issue that it cannot be avoided. It is against the law since it is a crime. The Title IX (which doesn’t say anything about the rapist being punished) is a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. There are plenty of ways to bring awareness to rape culture like: (1) have the school improve the educational program (The Campus SaVE Act requires all universities and colleges to provide comprehensive sexual assault and dating violence prevention education for all students, staff, and faculty) ; (2) host a demonstration like Slutwalk (women dressed in provocative clothing and marched to the police station to make a point that no one asks for sexual assault), Take Back the Night (an event that raises awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence by inviting participants to rally around campus in great numbers), or Denim Day (people are encouraged to wear jeans to raise awareness; when a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction because the survivor had worn tight jeans, women in the Parliament came to work the next day in jeans to show solidarity – background); or (3) create your own media campaign (Feminist