Violence against women is widespread in both developed and developing countries. Physical abuse is the common form of abuse in all parts of the world. In 2013, global review of available data, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical and or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Many women suffer from not only physical abuse, but, sexual, emotional and verbal. Women are mainly the victims of these sorts of abuse, not saying men aren’t as well, but there is a bigger number of women than men. “I remember he could get furious about just anything and start to yell and kick things. Once he called me bad names just because he couldn’t find his keys. Another time I was helping him with his homework and he wouldn’t
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Sure its not fair that women don’t get charged for hitting a man but men get charged for hitting a women, but men can also do so much more damage, not to just bruises and scratches but to the mind as well. A woman that gets abused slowing drowns in the horrible memories and words she gets called. Its like she dying from the inside-out slowly and painfully. Women in urban areas are twice as likely to experience violence, particularly in developing countries. “One day he hit me out of the blue. Once he started, he never stopped… The beatings were so intense; I knew that my life was at stake. There was times I would wake up, there was times I would thought that I would never wake up…” –Renee Norris Jones. After Renee got out of the relationship, she found refuge at a women’s refuge and she never felt more safe and happy than before. The fact that she couldn’t live by herself shows the damage that abuse can do to a woman. The effects of domestic violence on our society are obviously enormous, but are impossible to measure. Our entire nation suffers. A person 's spirit is priceless, and a broken spirit costs more than can be measured in …show more content…
The media produces the stereotypical women in which have blonde hair, blue eyes, big breast, big bum and the hourglass figure. Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally posses the body type often portrayed by Americans media. Among Australian women, body dissatisfaction mainly manifests with concerns about weight, even in those who are underweight or a healthy weight. This is reflected in unhealthy weight-loss practices (crash dieting, fasting, laxative misuse, vomiting) across all weight ranges. “I have struggled with the size of my body for my entire life…. When I was at the age of 12, I used to get badly bullied and was basically called fat every single day and basically left to feel like less of a person.” –Anonymous. Many women today struggle with facing the fact they are beautiful whether they are big or thin. This causes women to start dieting and exercising to the extremes and then leading on to eating disorders and bulimia. Women are also surrounded by the famous face of celebrities and models that have those “perfect” bodies, which applies more pressure to the woman. 58% of collage-aged girls feel pressured to be a certain weight. The incidence of bulimia nervosa in the Australian population is 5 in 100. At least two studies have indicated that only about one tenth of the
Sure its not fair that women don’t get charged for hitting a man but men get charged for hitting a women, but men can also do so much more damage, not to just bruises and scratches but to the mind as well. A woman that gets abused slowing drowns in the horrible memories and words she gets called. Its like she dying from the inside-out slowly and painfully. Women in urban areas are twice as likely to experience violence, particularly in developing countries. “One day he hit me out of the blue. Once he started, he never stopped… The beatings were so intense; I knew that my life was at stake. There was times I would wake up, there was times I would thought that I would never wake up…” –Renee Norris Jones. After Renee got out of the relationship, she found refuge at a women’s refuge and she never felt more safe and happy than before. The fact that she couldn’t live by herself shows the damage that abuse can do to a woman. The effects of domestic violence on our society are obviously enormous, but are impossible to measure. Our entire nation suffers. A person 's spirit is priceless, and a broken spirit costs more than can be measured in …show more content…
The media produces the stereotypical women in which have blonde hair, blue eyes, big breast, big bum and the hourglass figure. Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally posses the body type often portrayed by Americans media. Among Australian women, body dissatisfaction mainly manifests with concerns about weight, even in those who are underweight or a healthy weight. This is reflected in unhealthy weight-loss practices (crash dieting, fasting, laxative misuse, vomiting) across all weight ranges. “I have struggled with the size of my body for my entire life…. When I was at the age of 12, I used to get badly bullied and was basically called fat every single day and basically left to feel like less of a person.” –Anonymous. Many women today struggle with facing the fact they are beautiful whether they are big or thin. This causes women to start dieting and exercising to the extremes and then leading on to eating disorders and bulimia. Women are also surrounded by the famous face of celebrities and models that have those “perfect” bodies, which applies more pressure to the woman. 58% of collage-aged girls feel pressured to be a certain weight. The incidence of bulimia nervosa in the Australian population is 5 in 100. At least two studies have indicated that only about one tenth of the