Hard To Get: Twenty-Something Women And The Paradox Of Sexual Freedom By Leslie Bell

Violence influences the shaping of the identity of an individual's. Environment and values of culture can lead to violence. Physical Violence is part of society's problems of intolerance or neglecting attitude. Violence brings out the fear of safety among people. Leslie Bell in her essay selection from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom writes about dilemma of sexual freedom that young women face. She introduces the term “splitting” which is a psychological defense that women unconsciously make to solve their problem of contradictory lifestyle choices. Bell discusses the internal conflict caused by the violence that young women face such as safety and trust issues. Malcolm Gladwell in his essay The Power of Context writes about history of violence especially in subway in New York City and how people in New York City reacted in these violence situations. …show more content…
He also discusses the tipping point theory which is how shows how small changes in society lead to big events and changes in the society. Beth Loffreda in her essay selection from losing Matt Shepard writes about the social issues of hate, intolerance and cultural norms that led to murder of Matt Shepard, a young gay student in Laramie, Wyoming. She also discusses how the dominating group and minor group of people in Laramie reacted. Violence is a small change in the context which influences changing identity of people through the notion of psychological splitting and creates bias self-perception in order to ignore the problem in society. Violence shows the neglecting attitude of society which can become the trigger point of creating more violent