Slut

doesn’t like you! He’s in love with me! What in hell could he want with you? Don’t give yourself so much credit” (p. 57). Lenore’s jealously over Krissy’s sexuality is seen again when she tells Krissy “walking around half naked made her look like a slut” (p. 55). Krissy’s relationship with her mother established a model of relational behavior where Krissy is forced to accept verbal abuse in order to be provided with bare necessities such as food and shelter. This relational pattern is then…

Assault of the Mini-skirts The phrase ‘consentual sex’ is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard; the fact that the necessecity ever existed for it to be invented is sickening. Sex, by its very definition, is consentual. Hence both participants display enthusiasm, and actively answer ‘yes’, when asked if they would care to engage in sexual contact. Okay, so perhaps I’m formalising the situation, let’s make it more reaslistic: before you tear off someone’s clothes, they’d agreed to…

There are many things a mother passes on to her daughter; morals, routines, clothes, maybe even a wedding ring. The mother in “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid tells her daughter how to follow a good path by doing “womanly” duties as opposed to doing whatever she wants. First, the mother tells her daughter a list of self-rules she should follow to flower into adulthood beautifully. The girl is told advice that her mother wants her to follow to become a mature, wife-material woman. Finally, the mother…

Question 4 The issue of police brutality is sickeningly present in America and highly controversial. Instead of being flooded with feelings of relief and safety upon seeing a member of the police force, people of color feel anxiety and fear. Will this police officer harass or question me with no valid reason? Will they attempt to search my body or violate me? Will they even try to kill me? Black individuals are the most prone to acts of unnecessary police violence. In chapter 5, they discuss…

Every day when a person wakes up they make choices. Some people have to get dressed and think about how they are presenting themselves and what people think about them, while others simply do not care. Mostly, it is people of the upper class that stresses about this issue. In particular, celebrities are always challenged to look and act a certain way. Whenever they do not it typically draws plenty positive emotions and negative emotions from their fans. However, society tends to take what they…

A mother and a daughter have different points of view about dreams in their lives. A mother draws on her mind the kind of future and life her daughter could have. But, the mother does not consider that her expectations are far away from her daughter’s dreams and goals. A mother and a daughter do not conceive the same thoughts about dreams and the future because everyone has different thoughts about it. There are two stories that at some points have something in common between a mother and a…

For the next two weeks, Perceval and Joan went on evening walks whenever Perceval did not have night patrol. Gawain begged for details, but Perceval said nothing more than he and Joan were having a lovely time. And they were having a lovely time together. During their walks, they spoke of work, their families, their childhoods, and their interests. Perceval shared one story about how he and his patrol recently had a confrontation with some heavily-armed smugglers, and when he opened the rear…

Edward H. Thompson Jr. and Elizabeth J. Cracco authors of the journal article “ Sexual Aggression in Bars: What College Men Can Normalize” try to explain the importance of how sexual aggression affect the majority of women who attended bars, or college parties. Sexual aggressiveness is considering part of a masculine norm to many men who attend bars. In this research study Edward and Elizabeth were trying to find out figure out what causes men to become sexual aggressors towards women at bars…

Vincent (2012), said that “the hookup culture has been a source of great anxiety for parents, who worry about the effects on their kids as they move from campus antics to working world and family life” (p. 2). It is not possible to avoid all things that causes anxiety, because it is part of our daily and basic lifestyles as human being; parents instincts are to be protectively of their children regardless their age. They fear that a broken heart may cause their child or a narrow plan to not…

to continue reading because being sexually harassed at an early age is a such a disturbing situation. One example is when she uses a female high school student who was tormented by boys at her vocational school the girl explains “The boys call me a slut, bitch. They call me a ten-timer because they say I go with ten guys at the same time. I put up with it because I have no choice. The teachers say it’s because the boys think I’m pretty” (p.507). This story evokes emotions, making the reader…