Sexual assault in the U.S. military

and sexual violence committed were against men […] UCLA researcher Lara Stemple confirmed the data in her own study [and concluded] that we need to ‘completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,’ and especially the notion that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.” (Kasparian) We should also rethink sexual violence against men and viewing only women being the abusers. Many articles have been published in the attempt to bring a new awareness to rape and sexual…

The U.S military is a gendered organization dominated by men. In the history of the U.S Military, the public eye does not agree with women being in the military. America is not ready to see women die in combat. Gender relations in the armed forces has been in the public attention. The media have covered the sexual assault cases, women capability in the military, and women in combat. In the article by Cohn, Carol he talks about the underline negative feelings that males in the…

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…

counterparts ("Women's Equality Day: Gender Inequalities that Still Exist Today in the U.S.", 2017). Women still continue to see inequality through social, political, and economic standings in the United States. With gender inequality existing on a national level, exploration into the existence in the military will be the focus of this paper. In 2016 there were roughly 215,000 women serving as active…

U.S. Military Bases abroad: a bane or a boon? The United States of America with over 800 bases overseas has become a “base nation” as David Vine calls it in his famous book Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. The problem is that no one knows how many of these military bases the U.S. have. The rough estimate is somewhere between 750 and 800, however, the official records by the Department of Defense do not show the real number because of the different terms…

Due to such high violence and shock stemming from sexaul assault crimes, prevention strategies are necessary to make the public even more aware of how to avoid such attacks, or how to help those recover from attacks if they already have been victimized. The main focus of prevention strategies are to reduce the number of sex offenders, victims, and target risk factors than can lead to sex crimes. A few prevention strategies already being utilized are Safe Dates, Shifting Boundaries and Real…

From A Salt Rifle to an Assault Rifle: Our right as able-bodied citizens to own assault weaponry William S. Burroughs declared, "After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it." The Second amendment protects our right as able-bodied citizens to own all firearms (including assault weaponry), and preserves our natural right to defend ourselves. When the term “assault weapon” is used in the media no one really knows what it means, as there is no…

few being combat, sexual assault, or just seeing something gory. Military veterans are among the many who suffer from PTSD (Post-traumatic, 2014). The men and women of the armed forces never know when the day will come when they will need to put their lives on the line. When they will have to make the decision to either take a bullet for a fellow troop or sit there and watch while they die alongside them. War can be very gruesome and exhausting to endure. A great deal of the U.S. population…

men only. U.S Supreme Court argues that this is not a case of “traditional way of thinking about women”. The purpose for the draft was to ensure combat troops. The law has not been developed at that point and women were banned from combat roles. Therefore the Supreme Court stated that it was simply because women are not qualified for draft registration. I believe that the law determined by the Supreme Court was fair because there was no violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S…

essays about war. Vonnegut was a private in the U.S. Army’s 106th Infantry Division during World War II and was captured by the Germans in mid-December of 1944. In this essay, I examine the ways in which the bombing of Dresden is conflated with sex. Specifically, through a close examination of key metaphors and images, I show how the violent "deflowering" of the virginal city reflects the book's larger view that war is a kind of rape or sexual assault. Known as The Florence of the Elbe,…