Domestic Violence On Women

Violence on women can be seen in several other forms, there is violence in forms; of sexual abuse, domestic abuse, and verbal abuse. In “Femicide and Drugs Wars,” this article illustrates the injustice and harsh violence that is being caused to innocent women in Chihuahua, Mexico. However, in the “Femicide and Drugs Wars” it has a stronger focus on the affects and causes of sexual abuse on women. A similarity I saw to this topic of violence towards women was in Chapter 26, “The Report from the Bahamas” by June Jordan. In this article, it discusses about inequalities within gender, class, and race. Although, in pages 274-276, when she returns to her job she discusses an incident of a student being a victim of domestic abuse. While …show more content…
The state that a couple were on the border of Mexico, when soldiers came to the car and order the boyfriend to leave and return two hours later. Within those two hours, the soldiers raped the young woman, due to the violation to her body the woman later killed herself. Although, this injustice was never heard in the news family members and activist were furious towards this issue. “The vast majority of killings emerge from a situation of domestic violence, and general impunity”. This means that majority of these female deaths are a result of violence that being sexual or domestic. The main issue on the increasing number of deaths is that those who are killing women, such as soldiers, and drug lords are not being punished, therefore, creating a spiral of violence and injustice in Chihuahua, Mexico. “The Report from the Bahamas” by June Jordan focuses on the issues of gender, class, and race. In this article in the textbook, a young African American women discusses why she chooses to go to a public known hotel because of her safety concerns relating to her race, and sexual protection. She then goes by discussing the value of gender, and how she is seen by other people, such as the graduate students in the Caribbean. After her vacation in the Bahamas she goes back to work as a women poetry professor, in which now an issue to protect one of her students who is being domestically abused …show more content…
This does not mean that it does not happen, in fact our school for the past year has encounter few violence acts on women. However, our school tries to prevent such violations by educating students to be safer, and to be more defensive of our surroundings. On the other hand, violence towards women is seen in media majority of the time. While some television programs sensor heavy violence some programs are very desensitized on this issue. For example, in the media, such as the news (depending on the politics of the channel) the violence acts towards women are portrayed but they do not fully explain why it happened. On the other hand, we have television shows that glamorous the violence towards women such as Sons of Anarchy, in which women are beat when they do not follow orders or in some scenes they are raped to send a threat to other men. Besides, the small screen media, there have also been a long list of movies that portray violence towards one. For example, the movie Bordertown by Gregory Nava perfectly correlates to the Ms. Article, “Femicide and Drug Wars”. In this movie, an agent goes an investigation to figure out why so many women are dying in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. What she found out was that these movie were being kidnapped, raped, killed, and then buried in the desert. The similarities, are that they both discuss the same issue of Mexican women in Chihuahua being killed because of