A Typical Rape Case

This bizarre case began on Saturday morning, August 12, 1989, when Mary Lou Taylor of Coppel, Texas, reported to the Plano (suburb of Dallas), Texas, police seeing Sam Krasniqi fondle his 4.5 years daughter in front of hundreds of spectators during a karate tournament in a Plano high school gymnasium in which his 9 years son was competing. Sam Krasniqi was arrested and a bond was set at $25000. The State proceeded with the prosecution on a two track basis, namely through the civil (family) court and the criminal court.

On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone Magazine published an article that attracted over 2.7 million views, “more than any other feature not about a celebrity that the magazine had ever published.” The article, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” catapulted the issue of rape culture on college campuses into a national discussion. Encouraging this discussion and urging universities across the country to increase their efforts to combat this was the goal of Sabrina Rubin Erdely when she set out to find a story that encompassed just that. However, the article was ultimately retracted and removed from the website by Rolling Stone due to fabrications and ethical issues in the story.

Paglia’s editorial discusses an extremely controversial topic in current society and will undoubtedly will have readers who disagree, because there are opinionated points. Rape is also a very touchy subject, especially if the opinion on the issue is unwarranted. The editorial itself is not a lengthy read, and does not provide much support for various claims. As a result, many of the points can be argued against and are sure to infuriate a handful of readers who have other views. Date rape is difficult to discuss because coming to a conclusion without much explanation is bound to make some readers upset.

Technology can be a helpful resource when used correctly. In Fahrenheit 451, people are using technology as a weapon. The tv was the enemy. It was responsible for replacing literature, opinions, and curiosity. It has taken away relationships with friends and family.

The Hunting Ground features firsthand accounts exposing numerous rape cases on campuses around the nation. These cases were hidden and neglected by the universities in order to maintain low on-campus crime statistics. This movie features survivors sharing their cases and the neglect they received from their universities and their fight to receive justice. Two rape survivors, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, established a network of other survivors and built a Title IX legal case against their university for how their rape cases were handled. Overall, this movie sheds light on a rape epidemic that is plaguing many men and women across the nation.

Based on the article called “13-Year-Old’s Rape Case Dismissed Because Her Body Is ‘Well-Developed’ I disagrees with the court decision of the rape case. I believes that the court system should not had dismissed the rape case because the 13-year-old girl body was “well-developed” for her age. To me it shouldn’t matter how old the little girl body looks, she did not consent to the sex so that is consider rape. The perpetrator should had been charged with child rape because the girl was still under the country’s age of consent which is 15. Also, other older man’s over the age of 25 had also had unconsent sex with girls borderline of 15 or younger and their charges was also dismissed and the blame was on the girls. The court system should realize

“Feminism has not prepared them for this,” states Camille Paglia in her essay “Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know.” The “them” in Paglia’s statement is referring to women, and she is discussing the topic of date rape. Susan Jacoby, on the other hand, writes in her article “Common Decency,” that feminism is not responsible for the rising cases of date rape, but that it is the men who are at fault. Paglia’s argument is insightful and accurate, but Jacoby’s writing is flawed and not well-researched. Paglia includes all rhetorical appeals and persuasive techniques, while Jacoby lacks in some departments of persuasiveness and fills the gap with logical fallacies. Comparing both of these papers will help the reader see why

Statistics could sound more alarming than it actually is, it is not always as bad as it could be. Personally I feel the statistics for forcible rape should be higher than 25 out of 100,000 people. I know from previous classes that rape is underreported, so this could affect this statistic greatly. This statistic seems revelantly low, which is really good thing from the publics point of view. However with the underreporting, this makes it inaccurate and harder to determine the actually amount.

Rolling Stone is a magazine that was first known for its coverage of music and politics now mainly focuses on pop culture and entertainment. In the November 2014 issue, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” story was published about an alleged rape on the University of Virginia campus. Rolling Stone released information about the alleged rape of a freshman and how the school mishandled the situation. The Rolling Stone wrote and published a story that was only told from the student’s point of view; the magazine never interviewed anyone else related to the case. “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” story caused much controversy and many ethical issues came from the release of the

Statutory rape laws assume that a person is not capable of consenting sex. Even if a person consents the law of sex assume that they do not have the capacity to consent. statutory rape is different from child molestation as there is not force. Marriage is excluded from the law as an older individual is able to marry someone who is under age as long they obtain consent from their parents. Andre clark discussion of california’s statutory rape laws demonstrates the distinctions made for marriage in the law as statutory rape is described as an ‘’act of sexual intercourse intercourse accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator, where the female in under the age of 18 years’’ (P.1933). Statutory rape laws can also serve to protect those who are mentally incapacitated and be may be at a developmental age lower than their actual age however this can be difficult to prove. While statutory rape laws are currently in place to protect minors

Statutory law in particular is discriminating to boys and very patronizing to girls, throughout my research I have found many studies where women have cried in front of the judge and the judge will let them off with a minimum of three months probation, or a few hours of community service. Albert Einstein once said that, “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”

If these examples aren’t enough to convince someone of Thomas King’s mistakes, the comparison to male characters might just do it. An article posted to The Atlantic titled It 's Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That 's Not About Love by Kelsey McKinney has a tag line that perfectly sums this point: “Literary girls don 't take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men”. There is no better way to explain exactly what happens in King’s novel. Lionel goes on his journey of self discovery throughout the novel, deciding if he should go back to university, if he should quit working at Bill Bursum’s shop, etc. Charlie thinks back on his past with his father, and Eli relives his life from moving out of the reservation to coming back, and leaving a life behind. Though their stories may have some hints of love, and of women whom they wish to be with or perhaps wish to get away from, their journeys of self discovery are rooted internally for the most part. They are about how they feel, and who they have come to be, their identity as indigenous Canadians. Meanwhile, Latisha and Alberta are stuck recovering from past relationships with men. They are trying to navigate in a world built for men and establish their identities as independent women. Notice now, how one group’s identity has nothing to do with their gender, and notice how that is not the women.

http://www.safehorizon.org/page/rape--sexual-assault-54.html?gclid=CMDFiLTfrswCFQmSaQodtvMEWQ "Rape & Sexual Assault. " Safe Horizon. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. This website gives you the definition of sexual assault and rape.

As reported by, feminist criminologists, their perspective of rape and sexual assault differ between liberal and radical feminists. Liberal feminists’ viewpoint in regards of rape as a gender-neutral assault on a persons’ autonomy and mainly focusing on the harm that rape can do to an individual. In contrast, radical feminists describe rape as a subject to be recognised and understood as a major pillar of patriarchy; a social system in which men claim the positions of dominance and control of the central norms and values that are linked with masculinity (Johnson, 2005: p. 4-15). The radical feminists believe that rape is a patriarchal structure within male power, thus displaying the harms that rape can do to an individual and as a group of women. Furthermore, the radical feminists approach view rape as male have the control and authority over the use of women’s bodies, which involves the sexual and reproductive. Hence, this is the core element of patriarchy, Radical feminist believe that rape is one of many forms that connects men’s sexual exploitation and violence, as well as, reinforcing women’s oppression (Whisnant, 2013).

Most people would agree that as you grow up you learn by seeing, feeling ,touching , smelling, and hearing . Albert Bandura supports this by a theory he created called the Social Learning Theory (McLeod, 2011). Social Learning Theory is a theory that explains that behavior is learned by your social environment, interactions and observations of others. With this theory I would say it supports opinion in which I would say that rape is not something somebody just decides one day to do. I believe that rape is learned throughout time. There are many social and even media factors that sometimes may come off with the intention that rape is acceptable. In some media factors they may even perceive that being forcibly raped is pleasurable. Movies tend to do it often and sometimes movies don 't realize that what people see on television can sometimes influence people to see these acts as a norm. For instance the fact that a college kid is in a frat and he 's in a party there is a good percentage that he would reenact what television had stereotype frats boys to do. Television would label the frat boys as potential rapist and the human mind would consider that when you take on that role as a frat boy. One of the biggest media factors all the way from television to the internet that for so many years that perceive rape as acceptable is pornography.