Victim Blaming Research Paper

Victim-blaming is not a phenomenon that solely occurs in America, yet it is a pervasive one that takes hold in the mass media. American culture deflects the blame from the abuser to abusee. So the words and actions of a female do not give rise to consent, however her shorts and tank top do. Essentially, this attitude conveys Americans as people who place full blame on females for the wardrobe and not rapists for their egregious acts upon unwilling females; who will bring forward their disillusionments to engender disregard for their lewd manifestations
Tennis champion Serena Williams is no stranger to the conservative, media-spun blame. She reprimanded a 16-year-old rape victim, saying she "shouldn't have put herself in that position." Women are far from the dark age where they should worry about every little thing they do. What about the condemnation …show more content…
Rapists could say that it was because of the way he/she was dancing with the, and that they couldn't help themselves. Then, women are told not to dance a certain way with men, not to sit on their laps, not to make-out with them if they're not ready for what may ensue. This doesn't help us, chastising women and telling them to hide their sexuality doesn't help them as much as it helps their rapists. How about we chastise the rapists and tell them that they shouldn't act on a young person that cannot physically fight them off because they're much smaller. How about we tell rapists that it isn't consent if they mentally incapacitated, they've said no, or they've attempted to fight them off.
Does a lack of vitriol on the abuser serve as an acceptation for their vile crime? American culture sets decades of reforms alight, they progress to simultaneously regress. It is a great and tragic irony, and though this matter is not foreign to other nations, a nation as great as America shouldn't subordinate themselves to fit into the rapist's