Kobe Bryant sexual assault case

Today in our society, it is not an overstatement when people say news travels fast. Within seconds of a significant or unusual event happening, we get “Breaking News” headlines all over our TV screens, millions of tweets commenting on what had happened, and the sharing of stories or pictures through Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. However, have you ever noticed that most of the news we see or read from online consists of obscene events? Obscenity comes in many different forms. It can be from…

coined by man hating feminists, trying to blame men for the abuses against women. But, after taking this class and reading the material provided I now realize this is indeed a culture. It is how society acts towards, and its situations in which sexual assault, rape and general violence are ignored, trivialized, normalized or made into joke (Ridgeway, 2014). Or to simplify, that we as a society are more desensitized to sex and acts thereof, because of media, movies and lyrics of music, that…

In Sam McNerney’s article called, Is creativity sexy? He talks about the evolutionary of artistic thinking. He states that over the last 45,000 years, us as humans have discovered many different life changing accomplishments. This article is emphasizing on how creativity throughout the years, must have a relationship with sex. The author tries to prove his theory by gathering psychologists and by setting up a few experiments with college students. His first experiment was getting two groups…

let out three months earlier. His accuser is trying to recoup emotionally about the trial. Nate Parker, the producer of Birth of a Nation and former Penn State student was innocent of raping an unconscious woman in 2001 due to the fact that they had sexual relations before. His accuser committed suicide due to an emotional fallout. For three years an Oklahoma cop, Daniel Holtzclaw raped 13 poor black women and one woman told her story and made the other victims testify…

68% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Now you’re probably thinking, this can’t possibly affect me. Well, it does. When you meet someone, they are not going to introduce themselves by saying “hey! My name is Emily, or John, and I was raped when I was fourteen years old.” Inevitably, you will come in contact with this matter at some point in your life. In an interview in the UT counseling and Mental health Center with the president…

mindset of "women asking to be raped". Burt's present’s research provided varieties of personal opinions from interviewers, as they gave their insight towards their feeling about behaviors of relationships in romantic and sexual behavior, along with their opinion towards sexual assault and rape. Issues stating that feminist live in a rape culture which support violate…

and the trust of American citizens. Sexual assault cases should not be handled by the chain of command because they have repeatedly failed to bring justice to victims and have encouraged the rape culture behavior in the military. To the victims it isn’t only the assault that is so devastating but the betrayal when the military doesn’t investigate the crime properly and is more aggressive towards the victims than the perpetrator. This classifies rape and sexual violence as normal, tolerant, and…

that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.” In rape cultures women encounter sexual violence along a series of behaviors from economic power to rape to murder. It is important to remember that sexual violence is culturally constructed, meaning not all men have committed rape and when they did, it was not for the same reasons. Also, different cultures perceive women rape victims differently. White men did not commit rape to simply satisfy sexual urges, they…

The crime of sexual offenses is a growing issue in current society. Anyone can be a victimized. Unfortunately it is viewed as an unacceptable topic in many religions. Sexual Assault is violence; "Sexual assault refers to any unwanted sexual behavior which makes a person feel uncomfortable, threatened or scared" (What is Sexual Assault, 2015). There are many different types of assaults such as rape and child sexual abuse, which both lack the voluntary consent of the complainant. Consent must be…

7. Student’s engagement in sexual assault prevention and commitment to establish an accurate perception and dialogue begins with their universities. The prevalence of sexual assault is a global phenomenon, although it is difficult if not impossible to determine accurate statistics of sexual assault due to the variation of its definition (Worthen 2016). Statistics indicate the rape myth is as prevalent as sexual assault. It is perpetuated by society’s tendency to promote hegemonic masculinity…