American Women 's Experiences With Street Harassment

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…”

The lives of women are changed, devastated, and ruined by sexual assault. They will most likely never be the same person they used to be. A survivor of sexual assault will often take safety measures to avoid another one of these encounters; for example, they may walk an extra mile to avoid a dark alley she saw a man lurking around the other day or spend money on things like pepper spray, a rape whistle, or self-defense classes—all in an attempt to defend themselves from something preventable. In fact, a 2014 survey shows that 45% of women in America felt that walking alone after sundown was dangerous, which means that it is safe to say that even women

This book review is on the book, Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, which was published in 2014. Rebecca Solnit writes a book of essays that interprets the silence that women hold towards men in their everyday life. Young women must know the reality that we do not live a fairy tale life where women are treated as royalty by their husband or boyfriend. Women are treated as objects in where men could play with them as if they are dolls, whom they pay attention to whenever they would like to or need something from them. Despite what a woman says to men, all men are always going to have the reason, even if they are not right. The silences that a woman holds towards men are creating an even broader issue towards women in the present and in the future. The author mainly argues that women should not silence themselves and their issues such as abuse, harassment, rape, violence, stalking or any other crimes that are hurting them emotionally and physically. “Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender” (Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me, page 21). If women continue not to speak up and take action, men are going to continue to take abuse and control over their power.

Studying Social Justice in college has made me more aware to the sexism that occurs in my community. In the latest neighborhood chisme (gossip) or the local Logan square newspaper, it is often reported that acts of gang violence or property crimes have occurred throughout the week. Never does one encounter any awareness of the sexism that occurs throughout the community, nor is it a topic anyone is willing to openly discuss. Sexism is the

abused, and brutally beaten by police” (2015, pp. 1). Police men that are supposed to protect the

Injustices in this world infect people's lives like diseases. One in particular has not only developed over the years, but cases spring up in the most unthought of places. This injustice commonly known as sexual harassment affects women, children, and occasionally men all across the globe. There are many aspects when it comes to sexual harassment including its background, opposing viewpoints on the popular belief, the popular viewing, sexual harassment in today's society, solutions to the problem, and what the future would be like without this injustice on the world's hands.

As technology continues to evolve, our society has become toxic with the way that women are being taken advantage of online and in public. Women are being put in situations to decide whether they want to make a scene to stand up for themselves, or let their bodily autonomy be invaded. In the two articles, there are many examples of harassment and people need to understand that this behavior should not be acceptable. Society approves of these actions against women which is what lets it continue to be an issue today. In “The Quiet Violence of the Unwanted Kiss” and “Should We Feed the Trolls?”, Cauterucci and LaFrance are addressing this problem by working to raise awareness about the abuse women face in-person and on social media.

Bowman believes it is a grand issue that needs attention and help from the judiciary. Bowman gives her feminist perspective as she believes women are simply victimized by walking on the street. She gives examples of how men speak vulgarly to women and women have to put up with street harassment when alone. As men harass women they take away women’s freedom of privacy and make women believe they’re better off at home rather than out in public.

This article talks about women are less likely to use excessive force than male officers. Police brutality has a huge impact in communities because it can cause them to divide and create riots. If the more women were police officers then the number of complaints of police brutality would decrease, since women have great communication skills and don't need excessive force to control a situation. The government spend $63.5 million between 1990 and 1999 in lawsuit again male officers who used unjustified excessive force. Male officers made up 98% of excessive force allegations, while women made up 2%. People argue that the number of male officers subdue the female officers, causing these high statistics. With this in mind, I could use this source

An Analysis of Sexual Harassment Through A Critique of Linda Hasselstrom’s “A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun”

Firstly, Women are less privileged in today 's society because of the overwhelming numbers of sexualy based crimes and harrasments. Women face harassment on a daily basis, even in the western society women are troubled with the fear of these humiliating and often violent forms of discrimination. Sexual harassment and violence is a vast topic because of the different forms in which it takes. but the most common forms consist of catcalling, unwanted sexual

Social Media and local news coverage of high profile famous cases of sexual assault can give a misleading perceptions of the actual cause of the problem. Some of these articles talk about the stereotype with ‘stranger danger’ sexual assault and how it is actually not true.Most people who experience sexual assault are assaulted by someone who they actually

The city serves as a home to all the voyeurs, vagabonds and flaneurs that the world has to offer. The city is inviting to all people from all walks of life, it says “Come in, grab a seat and while you’re at it observe all the beauty that is around you.” It comes as no surprise that when walking through the complex streets and alley ways of the city you are under constant surveillance from all; whether it be the advertisement models on the billboards or the people on the second floor of the TGIFriday’s across the street. As a city walker, you find yourself in the gaze of others and at times those others even attract your gaze as well. While there might not be any real harm in simply looking someone’s way, a gaze can be a very dangerous thing to be caught in if you are a woman. Much like our American media, the city is saturated in catering to the male gaze. This means objectifying and subjecting woman into lesser roles under men. The male gaze can lead to dangerous situations for a woman on her own in the city and although many people argue that sexism no longer exists in our world, or the world of New York City I can assure you that it still permeates our society in ways we simply deem “human nature.” Sexism has become so common in our society that people hardly even notice it at all. Whether it take the form of cat calling specific gender roles, sexism has become a major problem in our world and, more importantly, the city.

One night, “Amy,” a student at State, was hanging out with some friends in her room. “A bunch of people were there, and one guy I didn’t know was obviously drunk and kept asking me out. I tried to brush him off, and didn’t take it seriously because he was drunk. I left to go to sleep. “He followed me to my room and kept banging on my bedroom door, trying to push it open and asking me to talk to him. I talked to him for a little while just to appease him.” Finally, the guy’s friends coaxed him away from Amy’s door. “I don’t know if that’s sexual harassment,” she said. “I wasn’t worried that he was going to assault me. The whole thing was just annoying.”

Jackson Katz argues the increase in violence perpetuated by men - on women, children, and other men - are tied to an outdated definition of manhood in our culture. Instead of blaming victims of violence, it is necessary to address the reasons men abuse others and the roles various institutions in our society play in producing these perpetrators. Katz believes this shift can be accomplished by the bystander approach, which essentially states men must act as leaders, speak up, and challenge other men who attempt to prove their manhood by being abusive - verbally and physically - to others. Silence, he argues, is to consent to these attitudes and perpetuate violent behaviors. In