Rape Culture: The Epidemic
She was Twenty-four, the world around her seemed grand and full of potential. She had a boyfriend she believed she could trust. She would soon discover that trusting him was going to be her biggest mistake. On an early afternoon at her home they were in the bed they shared. She rose from the left side of the bed and she felt his right hand grab her right arm. A minor argument ensued because he was upset at her answer telling him she did not want to have sex. He let go of her arm turning over mumbling and she wondered out of the room. Upon returning she noticed that her boyfriend was no longer on the bed. She felt his hands forcefully grab her upper arms and throw her on to the bed. She cried out that he hurt her when …show more content…
Her rapist doesn’t know that he is a rapist because society has taught him that women are objects. He justified his actions as it was perfectly fine for him to do because they had had sex before so he was entitled to it whenever he chose. Across our nation we face an epidemic called rape culture where victims are blamed and humiliated, humans are treated as little more than commodities, and rapist are not being held accountable for their …show more content…
Media has been a major contributor to disconnect from a person being a human to connecting them to little more than a sexual object. Ivan Raszl asserts that “We are sexual beings. Advertisers use this attribute by trying to associate their products and services with sexy imagery hoping that some of the hotness gets attached to their brand in the consumer 's subconscious mind."(As cited from Barber, J. 2007) Those in media implant these subconscious images of overtly sexualized people only deepens the void that we have stumbled into. Which are teaching gender roles that show women as submissive and men as dominant. (Rape Culture, Victim Blaming, and the Facts. 2015) This only continues the rape culture and leads to preconceived notions of who you are supposed to be. The focus of body image over personality is causing a connection of people and objects. Kevin MacDonald writes “From an evolutionary psychology perspective, pornography feeds into and activates systems related to sexual gratification and, in some types of pornography, aggression; activation of these systems inhibits systems underlying affection and concern for partner’s well-being.” (MacDonald, K. 2012) The overload of sexual imagery is everywhere you look; it’s in magazines, music, commercials, movies, and on television programs. A perfect example of this is in the
She was Twenty-four, the world around her seemed grand and full of potential. She had a boyfriend she believed she could trust. She would soon discover that trusting him was going to be her biggest mistake. On an early afternoon at her home they were in the bed they shared. She rose from the left side of the bed and she felt his right hand grab her right arm. A minor argument ensued because he was upset at her answer telling him she did not want to have sex. He let go of her arm turning over mumbling and she wondered out of the room. Upon returning she noticed that her boyfriend was no longer on the bed. She felt his hands forcefully grab her upper arms and throw her on to the bed. She cried out that he hurt her when …show more content…
Her rapist doesn’t know that he is a rapist because society has taught him that women are objects. He justified his actions as it was perfectly fine for him to do because they had had sex before so he was entitled to it whenever he chose. Across our nation we face an epidemic called rape culture where victims are blamed and humiliated, humans are treated as little more than commodities, and rapist are not being held accountable for their …show more content…
Media has been a major contributor to disconnect from a person being a human to connecting them to little more than a sexual object. Ivan Raszl asserts that “We are sexual beings. Advertisers use this attribute by trying to associate their products and services with sexy imagery hoping that some of the hotness gets attached to their brand in the consumer 's subconscious mind."(As cited from Barber, J. 2007) Those in media implant these subconscious images of overtly sexualized people only deepens the void that we have stumbled into. Which are teaching gender roles that show women as submissive and men as dominant. (Rape Culture, Victim Blaming, and the Facts. 2015) This only continues the rape culture and leads to preconceived notions of who you are supposed to be. The focus of body image over personality is causing a connection of people and objects. Kevin MacDonald writes “From an evolutionary psychology perspective, pornography feeds into and activates systems related to sexual gratification and, in some types of pornography, aggression; activation of these systems inhibits systems underlying affection and concern for partner’s well-being.” (MacDonald, K. 2012) The overload of sexual imagery is everywhere you look; it’s in magazines, music, commercials, movies, and on television programs. A perfect example of this is in the