Essay about Acid Throwing

Ever since birth, children have been raised into societies view of their sex. Boys are taught to be aggressive, while girls are shown subservience, and passivity. Girls are taught how to act, how to be 'feminine' and told who their superiors are, that is the male population. It is through these prerequisites of behaviour that radical feminists quote the threat and the action of rape and physical violence as a means of maintaining this superior/inferior status of men and women.

Rebecca Solnit’s article focuses on the ways male violence negatively affects women. Harassment from men directed at women keep women from speaking up, and many women are living in constant fear of male violence. They live in a constant state of fear because they are aware male violence is taking place around them. Women are also afraid of potential male violence because men openly express authoritative behavior. She explains men feel they have the validity to control and abuse women. Specifically, a man will approach a woman with the expectation that the woman will return the man with a sexual favor. For example, “a woman was stabbed after she rebuffed a man’s sexual advances while she walked in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood late Monday night…”

Throughout history, women have continuously found themselves as the subjects of oppression. Although the treatment of women has drastically changed over time, women are still exposed to much of the violence that exists today. Per the National Organization for Women, “young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape” (National Organization for Women, 2016). Women-centered violence is highly prevalent and reoccurring all over the world, even in our local communities. Individuals may be hesitant to consider just how much violence against women affects their communities.

Art influenced by drugs faces a unique challenge from the mainstream: prove its legitimacy despite its "tainted" origins. The established judges of culture tend to look down upon drug-related art and artists, as though it is the drug and not the artist that is doing the creating. This conflict, less intense but still with us today, has its foundations in the 1960s. As the Beatnik, Hippie, and psychedelic movements grew increasing amounts of national attention, the influence of drugs on culture could no longer be ignored by the mainstream. In an age where once-prolific drugs like marijuana and cocaine had become prohibited and sensationalized,

Because the violence that battered woman face is continual and the woman are not on equal physical grounds, they usually “strike” back, and this is usually reflected in the circumstances surrounding the killing like using a weapon (Schuller & Vidmar, 1992). Furthermore, because of the unequal fighting grounds, woman usually do not attack during a direct confrontation (i.e. during a beating), but rather at some point outside of a confrontation, usually due to perceiving that there is no escape from her situation other than attacking back (Schuller & Vidmar, 1992).

The motive behind this concept has been linked to either entirely or in partial to the perpetrators needs to assert one’s self, a concept of racial superiority, or even a disagreement between perpetrator and victim taken to extreme measures. Without question, many human rights are being violated such as; article three, five, seven, eight, nine, twelve, seventeen and twenty-eight. In addition, spectators often neglect the outrageous amount of sexual assaults that accompany with the initial intention of tormenting an individual with the forms of physical abuse and subjecting them

Many women are experiencing violence against them, whether it be physical, mental, or verbal. According to Kirk, Terry, Lokuge, and Watterson, “Violence against women (VAW) is a major issue worldwide, with an estimated 35% of women, or roughly 1 in 3, experiencing either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime” (p. 2). There have been many groups that have been created to combat violence against women. The group I will be focusing on is White Ribbon group. The White Ribbon are the defenders of women.

Violence against women has been ever-present throughout time and place in our world and in recorded history. Although violence against women encompasses a whole range of related acts, rape and sexual assault perpetrated against women is the focus of this paper. Men and boys are also victims of sexual assault, but the numbers of women who are sexual assaulted are much higher. We will be examining the definition of rape, the effects of rape, issues associated with rape, theories about the cause of rape and engage in some speculation on what can be done to improve the safety of women.

Within the first section, Stanko addresses four violent crimes that are exerted by men– incest, rape, wife battering and sexual harassment. Stanko draws comparisons between victimised women in Great Britain and in the United States. Additionally, she refers to women of different ages, different financial standings and different ethnicities concluding that “no woman is immune from men’s intimidating, threatening or violent behaviour” (p.1). However, she makes the distinction that the violence women encounter may differentiate based on factors such as ethnicity, class, religion or age. However, Stanko outlines that sexual intrusions are a commonality and are a feature of every woman’s life “the sexually harassing comments, the slap on the face, the grab on the street” (p.1) are familiar acts. This is reflected in the work of Rhode (2014) who as a contemporary criminologist makes an extensive explanation of how male violence is still a common occurrence as stated; “the

Sexual assault has no constraints as to age or gender, race, or incapacitation. The sexual action involved in an assailment can be unwanted physically contacting, prehending, and sexual intercourse. Women are more liable to be involved with sexual assault. “Examples of how woman are coerced into boffing includes being capitalized on by someone who has an form of ascendancy over them, manipulated into sexual activity against their will, and unable to give consent because one is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.” A sizably voluminous-scale study conducted on several college campuses found that one of every five women reported that they had been ravished in their lifetime. “The National Malefaction Victimization Survey estimated that one moiety of a million (or 500,000) sexual assaults occurred in the U.S. in one year, from 1992 to 1993. Of those assaults, about three of ten were consummated ravishes and an adscititious three of ten were endeavored ravishes.” After being sexually assaulted woman they may not accept what has transpired to them, this reaction is more mundane among women who are assaulted by someone they ken. Effects that women have after being sexually assaulted includes: Major Depressive Disorder, Exasperation, Shame/culpability, Convivial quandaries, Sexual quandaries, and Alcohol/drug use. Virtually all (94 out of 100)

“Women’s Use of Force” women will assault their male partner to defend themselves or their

In addition to my points on why men hurt women, another way some men insult women is by hurting them physically. When a man hits a women the woman feels like she lost some of her dignity. “I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again.” Kate’s husband said this to her which is very disrespectful and rude. If he hits her he will lower her self-esteem and dignity. Kate hits him in the first place to see if he will disrespect her too. Some men today might hit women because they want to feel power full and want the women to

Another common form of abuse exhibited against women is sexual abuse. Despite sexual abuse having the overarching inclusion of a sexual activity, Women Against Abuse candidly states, “Sexual abuse is not about sex. It is about power, and includes any sexual behavior performed without a partner’s consent” (“Types of Abuse”). Sexual assault is about exerting power over one’s partner, and in similar way,

Now a day appearances are everything. People are always striving to look good wherever they go. Many people take a look at them in the mirror and want to change the way they look. This is all caused by the judgement of our society today. This does not only occur in the 21st century it has been happening since the beginning of humankind. This affects men and women equally, because often time’s men judge women and women judge men, but people can get judged by their own gender as well. Every year millions of people do plastic surgery to make themselves more beautiful and appealing. This is done by men and

In his 2003 paper Jeffery Adler states, "social scientists generally link domestic violence to strains and tensions in gender relations, especially men's efforts to preserve masculine authority. According to many criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists, wife beating represents a "strategy of patriarchal power, typically employed either to discourage women from challenging men's authority or reign in those who stray from established or expected gender roles." (Adler, 2003) In 1995, Michael P Johnson introduced two distinct forms of domestic violence. One is where families suffer from occasional outbursts of violence from either husband or wives (common couple violence) While others are terrorized by systematic male violence (patriarchal terrorism). The distinction between the two is important because it has implications on how policy is implemented, the development of intervention strategies, and educational programs. (Johnson 1995)