Masculinity In The Hunting Ground

At the beginning of the documentary, The Hunting Ground, the girls are so excited because they will become a part of their dream college very soon. All of them are young, smart, beautiful, and energetic like flowers blossoming in springtime. The admission letters bring happiness to their families. They laughed, cried, hugged, and expected because all of their efforts finally had paid off. With their versions of future, they arrived their colleges. On the orientation day, the college promised the students and their families “we will be here to advise you, to support you, to guide you, to point you to the vast resources and opportunities on your way.” All the new students and their parents believed college is a safe and trustworthy place where …show more content…
Men are more dominant in our society. Even we do not want to admit it, but it is a brutal truth. Most famous football player are males. Most CEOs are males. Most presidents are males. Even in modern society, men can have several wives in some countries. Although our society claims women should be treated equally as men, women still be considered as subhuman in many cases. Human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault still happen around the world all the time and women are the main victims of these crimes. In the social construction of hyper masculinity, people think only man is the ruler of the world. Woman is mere the tool for reproduction and is appendix to the man. This idea puts women in weak positions in the rape culture. Perpetrators sexual assault women because they think women are less valuable than men in this social construction of hyper masculinity. In this society, men have many privileges than women. Male criminals even don’t pay for their …show more content…
Rape is a serious crime, but the perpetrators are still having classes without paying for their terrible crimes. They enjoy the full freedom and other rights like normal students. Jameis Winston even was worshipped and regarded as a super football star around the world. The school did all it can to cover up what really happened and prevent victims from reporting the police in order to support the interests of criminal male students and itself. After the truth was revealed, there are some people still tried to find excuses for Jameis Winston’s crimes and suspected victim’s motives. Without their just deserts, perpetrators keep raping other students on the campus and rape culture has been reinforced by this way. Because they know no one would speak for the girls and they can rape any girl without serious consequence constantly. Girls are like slaughtered sheep and they have no place to escape. When rape happens, few people would believe the female victims. Even the case was accepted, people blame girls rather than the perpetrators. Such inequality makes criminals are still at large and keep harming other