In essence, Blows emphasis how the focus on assault has been mainly publicized because offenders and victims were of a celebrity status. This is to say that people that rank lower of social, financial status are less important to society and that no focus is made on what happens to them. In addition, Blow writes, “speaking up and even pressing charges when the law, will send a powerful message and will defiantly have a chilling effect on this kind of behavior. Loss of livelihood and liberty after bad behavior is a strong deterrent”. In other words, when “speaking up” a person worries about receiving support when reporting a sexual assault, but the offender should worry about consequences, if the punishment was harsh then the offender may consider their action. Also, the fact that a victim is felt to be on trial along with the accuser makes is more challenging for a person to speak up. Because of many women feministic characteristic, some men with patriarchal ideology assume that is ok to transition from one friendly non-sexual relationship to one that may result in sexual assault. In other words, some men believe that women are just property and that they may take and use that anyway and time that they like. Hence society must view the types of punishment to be given to an offender of assault with determining, does the punishment fit the crime. This means that a re-examination must take place of what society has called the common male
In essence, Blows emphasis how the focus on assault has been mainly publicized because offenders and victims were of a celebrity status. This is to say that people that rank lower of social, financial status are less important to society and that no focus is made on what happens to them. In addition, Blow writes, “speaking up and even pressing charges when the law, will send a powerful message and will defiantly have a chilling effect on this kind of behavior. Loss of livelihood and liberty after bad behavior is a strong deterrent”. In other words, when “speaking up” a person worries about receiving support when reporting a sexual assault, but the offender should worry about consequences, if the punishment was harsh then the offender may consider their action. Also, the fact that a victim is felt to be on trial along with the accuser makes is more challenging for a person to speak up. Because of many women feministic characteristic, some men with patriarchal ideology assume that is ok to transition from one friendly non-sexual relationship to one that may result in sexual assault. In other words, some men believe that women are just property and that they may take and use that anyway and time that they like. Hence society must view the types of punishment to be given to an offender of assault with determining, does the punishment fit the crime. This means that a re-examination must take place of what society has called the common male