Little Red Riding Hood is not the innocent fairytale we all thought it was. Most people have heard this classic at least once before, but it is surprisingly not the original version. The story we are all used to hearing as children has some hidden details that readers did not pay close attention to first time around. Even though it was a fairytale after all it was not intended to be true. It turns out that Little Red Riding Hood actually contained a lot of real social issues specifically those that cover rape and sexual violence. Perrault’s interpretation on his take on the classic promotes myths that revolve around rape culture. He is not convinced that the victim is able to recognize signs of rape before it happens, along with victim-blaming
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To exclaim this allegory, he indicated that talking to strangers was a mistake, however this was not only intended for all girls but specifically beautiful girls that will attract different types of “wolves” in which they have no choice but to mislead them. Society holds this stereotype that the victim could have done something to help him or herself. For example, in Abigail Rines No Rape Victim Male or Female Deserves to be Blamed, it talks about how a rape incident took place at a school bus, but in this case it was not a female like how society generally perceives it, instead this incident involved a male who got raped by other males. There was nothing the victim could have done to help himself or to even stop it because he was duct taped in the process. They did not take the incident seriously at all and also thought that the victim’s family was blowing it out of proportion, consequently the community made it quite clear that they were not welcomed anymore. The community was very supportive of what the perpetrators have done and also made t-shirts, “Rather than cracking down on this harassment, some parents encouraged it, including the mother of an accused boy who made and distributed t-shirts that proclaimed alliance with the teenaged attackers”(Rine, …show more content…
She is not aware of what he has done in the past to know he is a person she should have stayed away from so she did not see his intentions as harmful or dangerous. Readers are able to tell what he is going to do next but the little girl is unaware of it all. When society thinks of rapists they think of “sex crazed men” () who have no control to stop what they are doing, although the truth beholds that rapists crave being in power. Their dominance over the situation is being overpowered by what they have set in their minds as to what they want to do. Moreover, an interesting point I thought the author brought up was when she was explaining the myth of how rape is mainly about control. Rapists have the need to take advantage of somebody and sex is how they do just that, as she says, “Rape is an exercise and demonstration of power” (2018), so saying that men do not know when to stop is not accurate. The dominant individual which is the rapist, find victims who are particularly weaker so that they have nowhere to escape. The wolf went out of his way to come up with a plan as to how he would “eat up” the girl but he dared not to do it in the woods where he would be caught. He was careful to be
To exclaim this allegory, he indicated that talking to strangers was a mistake, however this was not only intended for all girls but specifically beautiful girls that will attract different types of “wolves” in which they have no choice but to mislead them. Society holds this stereotype that the victim could have done something to help him or herself. For example, in Abigail Rines No Rape Victim Male or Female Deserves to be Blamed, it talks about how a rape incident took place at a school bus, but in this case it was not a female like how society generally perceives it, instead this incident involved a male who got raped by other males. There was nothing the victim could have done to help himself or to even stop it because he was duct taped in the process. They did not take the incident seriously at all and also thought that the victim’s family was blowing it out of proportion, consequently the community made it quite clear that they were not welcomed anymore. The community was very supportive of what the perpetrators have done and also made t-shirts, “Rather than cracking down on this harassment, some parents encouraged it, including the mother of an accused boy who made and distributed t-shirts that proclaimed alliance with the teenaged attackers”(Rine, …show more content…
She is not aware of what he has done in the past to know he is a person she should have stayed away from so she did not see his intentions as harmful or dangerous. Readers are able to tell what he is going to do next but the little girl is unaware of it all. When society thinks of rapists they think of “sex crazed men” () who have no control to stop what they are doing, although the truth beholds that rapists crave being in power. Their dominance over the situation is being overpowered by what they have set in their minds as to what they want to do. Moreover, an interesting point I thought the author brought up was when she was explaining the myth of how rape is mainly about control. Rapists have the need to take advantage of somebody and sex is how they do just that, as she says, “Rape is an exercise and demonstration of power” (2018), so saying that men do not know when to stop is not accurate. The dominant individual which is the rapist, find victims who are particularly weaker so that they have nowhere to escape. The wolf went out of his way to come up with a plan as to how he would “eat up” the girl but he dared not to do it in the woods where he would be caught. He was careful to be