The Double Standard of Sexuality and Rape Within The Media
In today’s media, everyday we are bombarded with sexual messages. Whether they are blatant or subliminal, everywhere you look you will be involuntarily influenced by these messages. But what is the reason we are always seeing erotic advertisements everywhere we look? In the online article Sex, Sex Everywhere: Corrupting Young Minds?, John Stossel asserts that the society we live in today is corrupted with sexual messages everyday, and suggests that "The intention [of showing sexual messages] is clearly to bring up... sexual desire”. (Stossel) These messages are not helping the men and women in our culture, but instead creating bigger problems. Slut Shaming and Rape culture are two …show more content…
With in the rape culture, men are usually seen as the culprit, but men being seen as victims is seldomly seen. While it is rarely noticed by many, it is still a big problem. In an article in The Washington Post, author Richard Morgan writes an article by the name of “My own rape shows how much we get wrong about these attacks”. The article tells Morgan’s rape story and how it affected him. Morgan points out that nearly “ 1 in 33 men have experienced ‘a completed or attempted rape,’ [and] 12.9 percent have been sexually assaulted. Mostly it is by men they know. “ (Morgan) It is important for our society to pay more attention to this subject because instead of the victims being seen as victims, they are seen as either wimps or victorious males that should be happy for what has been done to them. This is not fair for the victim as it praises the rapist, and may even push them to repeat the …show more content…
People now candidly talk about their sexual experiences and desires. While men usually brag about how many people they have slept with, women are usually more closed about it, for there is one big factor that holds them back, slut shaming. On shows like MTV’s The Real World, and The Jersey Shore, the men make sleeping around seem like some sort of everyday thing, but if the gender are switched the women are often harshly judged. The women automatically receive slanderous comments such as slut, whore, slag, etc. Specifying on the reality show Jersey Shore, an online article on Feministing titled, “Jersey Shore’s Gender Double Standard” by Charli, goes in depth of some of the double standards that are commonly seen on the show. Charli explains that “there’s a serious double standard in the house about the acceptableness of the guys having sex with (or I should say smooshing) multiple random partners on many different nights, but the women are called sluts or dirty if they do the same.I feel there’s a disconnect with what’s allowed for the women in the house to own and act on their own sexuality. ” (Charli) On one episode Pauly D, one of the reality stars from Jersey Shore, brought a girl home, Snooki and JWOWW, co starts, immediately started to call the girl a “grenade” (unattractive) and a whore for having intercourse with Pauly D. No one scolded Pauly D for bringing the her home, but only the female for
In today’s media, everyday we are bombarded with sexual messages. Whether they are blatant or subliminal, everywhere you look you will be involuntarily influenced by these messages. But what is the reason we are always seeing erotic advertisements everywhere we look? In the online article Sex, Sex Everywhere: Corrupting Young Minds?, John Stossel asserts that the society we live in today is corrupted with sexual messages everyday, and suggests that "The intention [of showing sexual messages] is clearly to bring up... sexual desire”. (Stossel) These messages are not helping the men and women in our culture, but instead creating bigger problems. Slut Shaming and Rape culture are two …show more content…
With in the rape culture, men are usually seen as the culprit, but men being seen as victims is seldomly seen. While it is rarely noticed by many, it is still a big problem. In an article in The Washington Post, author Richard Morgan writes an article by the name of “My own rape shows how much we get wrong about these attacks”. The article tells Morgan’s rape story and how it affected him. Morgan points out that nearly “ 1 in 33 men have experienced ‘a completed or attempted rape,’ [and] 12.9 percent have been sexually assaulted. Mostly it is by men they know. “ (Morgan) It is important for our society to pay more attention to this subject because instead of the victims being seen as victims, they are seen as either wimps or victorious males that should be happy for what has been done to them. This is not fair for the victim as it praises the rapist, and may even push them to repeat the …show more content…
People now candidly talk about their sexual experiences and desires. While men usually brag about how many people they have slept with, women are usually more closed about it, for there is one big factor that holds them back, slut shaming. On shows like MTV’s The Real World, and The Jersey Shore, the men make sleeping around seem like some sort of everyday thing, but if the gender are switched the women are often harshly judged. The women automatically receive slanderous comments such as slut, whore, slag, etc. Specifying on the reality show Jersey Shore, an online article on Feministing titled, “Jersey Shore’s Gender Double Standard” by Charli, goes in depth of some of the double standards that are commonly seen on the show. Charli explains that “there’s a serious double standard in the house about the acceptableness of the guys having sex with (or I should say smooshing) multiple random partners on many different nights, but the women are called sluts or dirty if they do the same.I feel there’s a disconnect with what’s allowed for the women in the house to own and act on their own sexuality. ” (Charli) On one episode Pauly D, one of the reality stars from Jersey Shore, brought a girl home, Snooki and JWOWW, co starts, immediately started to call the girl a “grenade” (unattractive) and a whore for having intercourse with Pauly D. No one scolded Pauly D for bringing the her home, but only the female for