In almost every media coverage looked at for this assignment, the focus tends to not focus on the fact that a young woman of sixteen was sexually assaulted and raped. Instead, the emphasis is put onto the perpetrators and the role technology and social media played in the case. Some articles demonize and condemn the horrid actions of all people involved. Some focus on how the rapists’ life and how it was so out of character for these young men to commit such a heinous crime. The absence of addressing rape myths and perpetuating the idea that rape is the victim’s fault, are prime examples that most people and even our society’s media coverage are in deep structuralized denial of the rape culture in America. Instead of humanizing and allowing
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Because she couldn’t actively resist or give consent, that absence of it seems to lead people that she wanted those teenagers to violate her. In one of the videos leaked of another teenagers shows him saying that ‘it really isn’t rape because we don’t know if she wanted it or not’. In reading 52, Rape Myths, written by Katie M Edwards, Jessica A Turchix, Christina M Dardis, Nicole Reynolds, and Christine A Gidycz, attention is draw to studies that show ‘a link between men’s belief in token resistance, acceptance of rape myths, and sexual perpetration’ (Edwards et al. 600). Although the teenager in the video was not charged with being an active participant in the rape, his ideas aren’t that different of his peers as many didn’t do anything to stop the rapists or help the girl out of the …show more content…
However, the media’s obsession with emphasizing that Jane Doe had had drank too much alcohol and put herself in danger perpetuates another common rape myth that women ask to be raped, another rape myth pointed out in Rape Myths. As pointed out in Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape by Elizabeth a Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney, ‘the most common way that students-both men and women- account for the harm that befalls women in the party scene is by blaming the victims’ (Armstrong et al. 620). It is not just the most common way that students account for rape, but the way most of our society
Because she couldn’t actively resist or give consent, that absence of it seems to lead people that she wanted those teenagers to violate her. In one of the videos leaked of another teenagers shows him saying that ‘it really isn’t rape because we don’t know if she wanted it or not’. In reading 52, Rape Myths, written by Katie M Edwards, Jessica A Turchix, Christina M Dardis, Nicole Reynolds, and Christine A Gidycz, attention is draw to studies that show ‘a link between men’s belief in token resistance, acceptance of rape myths, and sexual perpetration’ (Edwards et al. 600). Although the teenager in the video was not charged with being an active participant in the rape, his ideas aren’t that different of his peers as many didn’t do anything to stop the rapists or help the girl out of the …show more content…
However, the media’s obsession with emphasizing that Jane Doe had had drank too much alcohol and put herself in danger perpetuates another common rape myth that women ask to be raped, another rape myth pointed out in Rape Myths. As pointed out in Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape by Elizabeth a Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney, ‘the most common way that students-both men and women- account for the harm that befalls women in the party scene is by blaming the victims’ (Armstrong et al. 620). It is not just the most common way that students account for rape, but the way most of our society