Emotional and Communicative Abuse in Society
Terri Gray
COMM 4360.783 Dark Side of Communications
Final Paper Emotional and communicative abuse, sometimes called psychological abuse, has been studied before in regards to intimate relationships and the parent/child relationship. I believe that this form of abuse is being used as a tool in the war on women which is taking place in the United States today. I propose to compare the criteria for what constitutes communicative abuse in interpersonal relationships to the current events occurring in our country which are being used to undermine women’s confidences, opportunities, rights and power.
In the United States today, women’s rights and roles in society are being attacked in the same way …show more content…
Put simply, any pattern of behavior that seeks to deliberately impair another person's self-image should count as psychological abuse. However once the complexities of human interaction are taken into account one realizes that an innocent comment made by a stranger can in some cases cause emotional distress or an anxious response in another person. Or what one would consider helpful criticism another may feel is quite offensive. These types of interactions are in some cases unanticipated by the person causing the psychological abuse, in other cases they are done quite deliberately. This makes a reliable outside diagnosis quite difficult. For what to an outsider seems like a shrill domestic spat about to spill over into violence could in fact be only teasing done between lifelong partners who have intimate trust and knowledge of each other's personal limits. Thus we begin to recognize that the only place we can begin to measure psychological abuse is with the victim of said abuse and the injury they have …show more content…
Although they probably don't feel as if they are at all involved in "holding women back" as it were, they make the vast majority of executive, legislative, and judicial decisions for America. What a man would consider a small thing, a seed of traditionalism, an old concept of chivalry, is actually informing a great number of his conscious and subconscious decisions and preferences. He speaks with loaded language that reaffirms the ancient status quo, he consoles the good 'ole boys, and makes sure not to rock the boat too much so as not to upset the apple cart. An older “gentleman” like that would probably prefer that we just wait for his kind to simply die out
Terri Gray
COMM 4360.783 Dark Side of Communications
Final Paper Emotional and communicative abuse, sometimes called psychological abuse, has been studied before in regards to intimate relationships and the parent/child relationship. I believe that this form of abuse is being used as a tool in the war on women which is taking place in the United States today. I propose to compare the criteria for what constitutes communicative abuse in interpersonal relationships to the current events occurring in our country which are being used to undermine women’s confidences, opportunities, rights and power.
In the United States today, women’s rights and roles in society are being attacked in the same way …show more content…
Put simply, any pattern of behavior that seeks to deliberately impair another person's self-image should count as psychological abuse. However once the complexities of human interaction are taken into account one realizes that an innocent comment made by a stranger can in some cases cause emotional distress or an anxious response in another person. Or what one would consider helpful criticism another may feel is quite offensive. These types of interactions are in some cases unanticipated by the person causing the psychological abuse, in other cases they are done quite deliberately. This makes a reliable outside diagnosis quite difficult. For what to an outsider seems like a shrill domestic spat about to spill over into violence could in fact be only teasing done between lifelong partners who have intimate trust and knowledge of each other's personal limits. Thus we begin to recognize that the only place we can begin to measure psychological abuse is with the victim of said abuse and the injury they have …show more content…
Although they probably don't feel as if they are at all involved in "holding women back" as it were, they make the vast majority of executive, legislative, and judicial decisions for America. What a man would consider a small thing, a seed of traditionalism, an old concept of chivalry, is actually informing a great number of his conscious and subconscious decisions and preferences. He speaks with loaded language that reaffirms the ancient status quo, he consoles the good 'ole boys, and makes sure not to rock the boat too much so as not to upset the apple cart. An older “gentleman” like that would probably prefer that we just wait for his kind to simply die out