She asked for it
He tossed me around like a rag doll. He threw me onto the filthy cold pavement. My skin was pulsating, sending waves of radiating pain; I was sticky, wet and red. My ears buzzed with silent screams and my chest heaved. I was exhausted, confused and lost. He loomed over me, his teeth bared angrily in an ugly grimace of hate. The torture had just began.
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Every year, an estimated 21,300 Australians are victim to sexual assault. This is one of millions of rape cases reported to police in the world but a shocking ⅚ victims keep silent for fear of harm and shame to their family. But the suffering continues. A rape victim may fall pregnant, contract STDs and PTSD. They may be blamed for their rape and harmed for ‘bringing …show more content…
The very format of the present Australian legal system is extremely damaging and disrespectful towards victims who are forced to relive their nightmares: they must write a victim impact statement whilst trying to move on and heal. A victim’s veracity is also repeatedly questioned by not just the defence team but also their friends and family. Society poses derisive questions such as “what were you wearing?”, “what did you eat before hand”,”how many drinks did you have?”, “why were you out so late at night?” to question a victim 's legitimacy. Terrifyingly, it is a societal norm to try and excuse the rape, to blame the victim. But the thing is, short skirts, alcohol and drugs don 't cause rape… rapists cause rape. Stop victim shaming. Education will lead to a reform in harmful demeaning attitudes and justly shift the blame from the victim to the …show more content…
This can be achieved through having open conversations about rape culture and how to combat it. We live in a country which was one of the first to give women the vote, we have even had a female Prime Minister, so how is it that we “have one of the highest rates of reported sexual assaulted”? By reeducating the community via the media and its portrayal of women, we can halt the objectification of women and male entitlement. We are not prizes to be “won over” nor are we objects for consumption. As civilised people living in a developed country, we should do more to condemn instead of excusing “locker room talk”. We shudder at Donald Trump 's machismo talk, so why do we allow it in our own sport stars(yes, I am talking about you Michael Quinn and you too Brock Turner)? We must show children that they can 't “grab them by the pussy” because they can “get away with it...you can do anything. ”. We must stop the assumption that women can be used for sexual pleasure by sporting team members, the machismo where masculine promiscuity is celebrated whilst the feminine equivalent is slut-shamed. Through community change and education, we can finally show that we don 't owe anyone anything, they don’t own us and we are not their “toys”.
Rape culture dates back to
He tossed me around like a rag doll. He threw me onto the filthy cold pavement. My skin was pulsating, sending waves of radiating pain; I was sticky, wet and red. My ears buzzed with silent screams and my chest heaved. I was exhausted, confused and lost. He loomed over me, his teeth bared angrily in an ugly grimace of hate. The torture had just began.
…..
Every year, an estimated 21,300 Australians are victim to sexual assault. This is one of millions of rape cases reported to police in the world but a shocking ⅚ victims keep silent for fear of harm and shame to their family. But the suffering continues. A rape victim may fall pregnant, contract STDs and PTSD. They may be blamed for their rape and harmed for ‘bringing …show more content…
The very format of the present Australian legal system is extremely damaging and disrespectful towards victims who are forced to relive their nightmares: they must write a victim impact statement whilst trying to move on and heal. A victim’s veracity is also repeatedly questioned by not just the defence team but also their friends and family. Society poses derisive questions such as “what were you wearing?”, “what did you eat before hand”,”how many drinks did you have?”, “why were you out so late at night?” to question a victim 's legitimacy. Terrifyingly, it is a societal norm to try and excuse the rape, to blame the victim. But the thing is, short skirts, alcohol and drugs don 't cause rape… rapists cause rape. Stop victim shaming. Education will lead to a reform in harmful demeaning attitudes and justly shift the blame from the victim to the …show more content…
This can be achieved through having open conversations about rape culture and how to combat it. We live in a country which was one of the first to give women the vote, we have even had a female Prime Minister, so how is it that we “have one of the highest rates of reported sexual assaulted”? By reeducating the community via the media and its portrayal of women, we can halt the objectification of women and male entitlement. We are not prizes to be “won over” nor are we objects for consumption. As civilised people living in a developed country, we should do more to condemn instead of excusing “locker room talk”. We shudder at Donald Trump 's machismo talk, so why do we allow it in our own sport stars(yes, I am talking about you Michael Quinn and you too Brock Turner)? We must show children that they can 't “grab them by the pussy” because they can “get away with it...you can do anything. ”. We must stop the assumption that women can be used for sexual pleasure by sporting team members, the machismo where masculine promiscuity is celebrated whilst the feminine equivalent is slut-shamed. Through community change and education, we can finally show that we don 't owe anyone anything, they don’t own us and we are not their “toys”.
Rape culture dates back to