Types of rape

One of the debates that emerged from the brutal and vastly covered in media, The Delhi Gang Rape (2012), was if Bollywood promoted rape culture through its item numbers critiquing the male gaze on women’s bodies and questioning whether the hyper-sexualization of Bollywood’s actresses served to normalize sexual harassment. The new trend being, the asexual, good Indian girl (who ultimately is coveted by the hero) constructed against the sexualized item-girl and one instantly thinks of the…

An intriguing theme in Women at Point Zero by Nawal Ed Saadawi is ‘the paradox of power’. A purely feminist book, the translated version we read in class is a third-hand story of a prostitute named Firdaus who kills her pimp and tells the story of her life to author and narrator Ed Saadawi before the day of her execution. The protagonist Firdaus is a strong character through whom we learn of the kind of life most women in Egypt lived in the fifties through the seventies which is the setting of…

I’m Gossip Girl, a pretty big deal here in New York. I get the gossip and spread the latest news on the more well known teens that attend Constance Billard,a private school in New York. I don’t do the dirty work myself, all of the gossip that I tend to tell is sent in by other teens or just pretty much anyone who has the latest dirt on someone that they think should be exposed. The fun part about being “Gossip Girl” is that no one knows who I am. At the very end of the series, I finally tell you…

Gender violence includes offenses such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment, and anyone of any gender can become a victim. However, the stereotypical victim of gender violence is female because a large proportion of victims are women. Consequentially, as Jackson Katz discusses in his TED Talk “Violence against women – it’s a men’s issue”, many people believe that issues such as domestic violence and sexual harassment only affect women and, thus, are deemed “women’s issues”…

In 1987, Annie Dillard writes an excerpt in her book ,An American Chase, that portrays how differently society views boys and girls. In the world that we live in now, males are allowed to do reckless activities without reprimand, but at the same time if a female did the same thing we would be reprimanded right there on the spot. From birth we are taught to never come out of the perfect little box that society put us in. The social view for men and women are completely different just due to the…

Only rape victims can understand the horrors of being sexually assaulted. Melinda Sordino, the protagonist of the novel, Speak, narrates the story in which she is sexually assaulted at the beginning of ninth grade by a boy named Andy Evans. Melinda is lost, confused, and depressed trying to overcome her trauma, while her classmates bully her for calling the cops on a party. Additionally, her parents and teachers consider Melinda a disappointment because of her actions in school and inability to…

Practical Applications: 1. Do not expose yourself to pornography – No matter what other people say, pornography is still prostitution. Even if some people justify it as having ‘professional contracts’ or consent from the actors, it is still a form of exploitation. Do not support any kind of pornography, in any medium. Pornography has only one goal – to stir sexual craving from its audience. If you want to master your senses and improve your ability to restrain yourself, then avoiding pornography…

The interview I completed was with Cindy Dikmen, who is an emergency room registered nurse and a certified sexual assault nurse examiner at a local hospital. In order to be a certified sexual assault nurse examiner, a registered nurse must complete 40 hours of certification training. In addition to the training, shadowing experienced sexual assault examiner, is also recommended in order to build skills. Training also teaches how to interview victims in order to record an accurate statement. The…

In a small town called Maycomb, Alabama, a man and a women are put on trial for rape. A young Caucasian young lady accused a wealthy african-american man of raping her and abusing her in her home. While reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the author, Harper Lee shows the power that the nineteen year old Caucasian young lady named Mayella Ewell has using three things: Class, Race, and Gender. A Caucasian nineteen year old young lady named Mayella Ewell grew up in a small town called…

nude or semi-nude photos. The film effectively questions societal morality in conjunction with social expectations. In the stories of Audrie and Daisy, there is a power to speak against such abuses and social trends; rather, the lens zooms in on how rape culture affects policy. The sheriff of Maryville, Missouri even admits that there is “pressure on young girls in our society to be pretty, to be liked, to be the popular one…it’s not fair, but it’s how our society works”. Coming from a sheriff,…