Roxane Gay - Reading Response
The three readings by Roxane Gay talks about rape culture and men. The idea that rape has more of a negative effect on men rather than women. The idea that the impact is more detrimental to the rapist rather that the victim is something that occurs in these readings a lot.
In Careless Language of Sexual Violence, Gay talks about the case of James McKinley Jr., where the focus was more on the lives of the men, rather than the 11-year-old child who was raped by 18 men, ranging from the ages of middle school boys to 27 year olds. The common thinking that women ‘ask for it’ based off of how they dress, look, act or its their mothers fault because anything bad that happens is the mothers fault. The ideology of women …show more content…
There is a comfort, I suppose, to consuming violence contained in ninety-minute segments.” (Gay, 130) Quote goes to show that although we are constantly talking about rape, we still have a stigma towards helping make the world better. The idea of rape within a marriage is insane and the ideology that a husband can do anything to his wife without her consent is something that we need to learn from and understand. The idea of consent is to ensure that no one ends un in a situation like this. One thing that really caught my attention was the concept of “dick culture”. This was the first time I had heard about this concept. It is explained by Sarah Nicole Prickett as, “the inordinate pride men feel in owning and wielding their dicks” (Gay, 134). At first I thought this was funny and then the more I read over it and thought about it, I realized it was true. The idea that men are so controlled by a reproductive body part that it restricts them from thinking and allows them to ruin someone’s life, just so they can fulfill a desire that their reproductive organ had. Lastly, I found the idea of language important when it came to rape and rape culture, especially due to the stigma around the topic. Language has to power to “restore the
The three readings by Roxane Gay talks about rape culture and men. The idea that rape has more of a negative effect on men rather than women. The idea that the impact is more detrimental to the rapist rather that the victim is something that occurs in these readings a lot.
In Careless Language of Sexual Violence, Gay talks about the case of James McKinley Jr., where the focus was more on the lives of the men, rather than the 11-year-old child who was raped by 18 men, ranging from the ages of middle school boys to 27 year olds. The common thinking that women ‘ask for it’ based off of how they dress, look, act or its their mothers fault because anything bad that happens is the mothers fault. The ideology of women …show more content…
There is a comfort, I suppose, to consuming violence contained in ninety-minute segments.” (Gay, 130) Quote goes to show that although we are constantly talking about rape, we still have a stigma towards helping make the world better. The idea of rape within a marriage is insane and the ideology that a husband can do anything to his wife without her consent is something that we need to learn from and understand. The idea of consent is to ensure that no one ends un in a situation like this. One thing that really caught my attention was the concept of “dick culture”. This was the first time I had heard about this concept. It is explained by Sarah Nicole Prickett as, “the inordinate pride men feel in owning and wielding their dicks” (Gay, 134). At first I thought this was funny and then the more I read over it and thought about it, I realized it was true. The idea that men are so controlled by a reproductive body part that it restricts them from thinking and allows them to ruin someone’s life, just so they can fulfill a desire that their reproductive organ had. Lastly, I found the idea of language important when it came to rape and rape culture, especially due to the stigma around the topic. Language has to power to “restore the