Rape In The Military Analysis

First off I want to say, that this was the hardest movie I have ever watched in my life, seeing what all those women and men had to go through was heartbreaking and knowing that when they were fighting their cases that I was in basic training. Thinking about it now, that this could have happened to me, I could have been one of the thousands of women who were sexually assaulted and still are being sexually assaulted in the Military. This movie was about women and men speaking out about what had happened to them in their time in service. All of these young men and women were sexually assaulted and nothing was done about it, their rapist were not prosecuted and many of them are still in the service today getting awards and getting promoted. One women in the film said, if rape cases ever came in they were never given to the women, the men always took those because we were too sympathetic (Wells, 2012). Women who have been raped in the Military have a PTSD rate higher than men who’ve been in combat (Kirby, 2012). The group of women in the …show more content…
Many of them in this film were women, but there are men who get sexually assaulted too, it’s just not women and more people need to know that. 1% which equals 20,000 males are sexually assaulted in the Military (Kirby, 2012). It’s not ok for this to be going on and most of the time the military wants to cover it up and act like nothing has happened, when it has happened and it is still happening today. This film has opened my eyes so much and also has scared me because nothing is being done about it, yes they have us take SHARP classes yearly, but no one pays attention or cares. There needs to be more done than just taking a class action need to be taken and it needs to be corrected before more females and males end up in the same situation that these men and women are