Gender Stratification Essay

Register to read the introduction… Billy and Kristen like each other so Kristen decides to sleep with him and goes to his frat house, rape occurred when she asked Billy to stop and put on a condom. He didn’t stop and she started to scream and she finally kicks him off of her and runs. Like most cases of rape she did not report because of fear of humiliation, 67% of date rape situation are committed by people who know one another (U.S. Bureau of justice Statistics, 2005). Singleton made gender stratification a clear point he want to call attention to in the book. The name gender stratification means the unequal distribution or wealth, power and privilege between woman and men. The author uses gender to portrait woman where are weak and low on self-esteem. Singleton shows Kristen as a fragile, powerless female unable to protect herself. To be honest, Singleton made all the woman in the film look frail and helpless against a male figure. Gender roles where clearly defined is this picture from Kristen being raped but is too scared to tell the police to Monet having Fudge fight Billy for calling her a “black bitch” .It seems as though Singleton wants it …show more content…
Kristen starts hanging out wit Taryn the leader of the feminist group and also a lesbian, and she finds herself becoming attracted to her. There's a directness in the way Taryn hugs Kristen, when Kristen tells her about the rape that tells you her soothing is thoroughly genuine and there's no sexual gratification to the act. Before Kristen met Taryn she felt like she could not trust anyone. Many curious young woman are exploring there sexuality because deficient adult identities caused by lack of interactions with good male adults. Consequently, Billy has alienated Kristen away from her cultural