Aspects And Misconceptions Of Rape Myths, And Stereotypes

Next, the paper will analyze and critique rape myths within the Ewanchuk case and will be related, compared and contrasted with several other scholarly articles proving the strength and presence of rape myths. Finally, this paper will discuss the advantages and limitations of litigation on sexual assault followed by a final conclusion to the paper.

Common phrases college students toss around during their time spent on campus are “freshman 15”, “syllabus week”, or “rape culture”. Culture is understood to be something that people engage in together as a society. Rape culture is when people of a society excuse or tolerate sexual violence. It is when sexual assault, rape, and harassment are ignored, belittled, normalized, or made into jokes. Rape Culture is when pop music tells women “you know you want it” because of these “blurred lines” (Thicke), when society supports athletes who are charged with rape and then calling their victims career-destroyers, when companies create advertisements using women in order to promote business, when people believe that girls allow themselves to be raped,

Through my reading of the article titled “Can she consent to sex after drinking” by Margaret Wente I identified two rape myths. As we know, rape myths are a set of beliefs about rape and sexual assault that feed into rape culture. These uneducated beliefs place the blame on rape victims rather than the perpetrators and attempt to blur the line between rape and consensual sex. In Wente’s article the rape myths I found are “As for those armies of would-be rapists lurking in every shadow – they’re your sons, your grandsons, your nephews and your brothers” and “If two young people get hammered and have drunken sex, he is responsible for his behaviour, but she’s not responsible for hers”. In the first rape myth the author uses a sense of sarcasm, what she is essentially say is that the people who you are calling rapist are in fact just your innocent friends and family. The author is assuming that people who commit acts of sexual violence are not people that we know. She uses this quote to make readers think that rapists are dark, devious, and unknown people. However, we know that in reality this is not the case, in approximately 80-90% of sexual assault cases the perpetrator is someone the victim knows. An overwhelming majority of rapes that occur on campuses are actually done so by the person the victim is dating or an acutance. Although the author tries to assume friends and family are not rapist, studies would argue to the contrary. In the second rape myth the author is

Recently, I have had an opportunity to watch your TED talk show and analyze one of your political cartoons for school. As a teenage girl of a new generation, I was outraged and disappointed with our society by the gender prejudice demonstrated in your cartoon. Meanwhile, I was able to look into your effort to raise awareness of gender issues and to deliver your message of how women are often wrongly stereotyped as being the main causes of rape by the public. And, I concur with your point. I was stimulated by your challenge to confront the institutionalized behavior of people that stereotypes women, and this encouraged me to write a letter to you to show my support and share my opinion.

As kids we were taught about “stranger danger;” we were taught to protect ourselves from strangers and as we got older, females were told to protect themselves from getting raped. In this paper, I will discuss how living in a rape culture affects women and men, how does rape myths affect society and how we can change the negative effects of living in a rape culture and rape myths. In order to understand this, we must first define what rape is.

Gender roles and rape myths attempt to legitimize rape by blaming the victim as a part of society’s acceptance of sexual violence as a whole. “Boys will be boys” encourages boys to be rough and masculine, while at the same time suggesting girls should be submissive. Although school grounds are thought to be a safe heaven for nurturing the growth and development of young minds, progress is stunted by the shadows of sexual assaults in the background. Society’s tolerance of sexual assault is encouraged by the sociological factors of conflict theory, the bystander effect and symbolic interactionism.The integration of learning opportunities and reporting systems will be fundamental in the future of universities and colleges in order to maintain

Fitzgerald and Lonsway define myths of rape as “false but persistent beliefs and stereotypes regarding forced sexual intercourse and the victims and perpetrators of such acts” (Kahlor). These rape myths include opinions that women who act or dress offensively are asking to be raped, or women who claim to have been raped when they later regretted having consensual sex. While it may be a common myth that some women lie about being sexually assaulted, “the fact is that only 2% of rape reports prove to be intentionally reported falsely” (Bohmer). An additional flagrant myth about rape is that no actually means yes, and that being raped is what some women secretly want. Although there a many myths about rape that are related to the rape victim and what she was doing and wearing, there are many myths about rape that define the rapist and create false images on what people actually commit rape crimes. An example of one of those myths is that “rapists are sex-starved, insane, or both” and that the action of rape is strictly a passion crime (Iconis). These assertions provide many

In today’s society, victims of domestic violence and sexual assault often experience some form of victim blaming. Victim blaming occurs when society partially condemns the victim for what has happened to them. This tendency to assign criminal responsibility to the victim occurs in all segments of our society regardless of race, gender, social class, or occupation (Hamilton, 1979). Currently, rape is a big issue throughout society. The word rape is defined as sex without consent. Rape is about power and dominance, not sex. The cultural message in America is “don’t get raped” as opposed to “don’t rape.” Many public figures have been known to blame victims of sexual assault for their situation. In 2012, during an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan,

Before the emergence of the Westernized “anti-rape” movement, there was a distinctly rape supportive discourse in our society, supported by myths and justifications for the act of raping another human being. The resulting trauma for the victims of rape was greatly ignored as society

This idea plays largely into the concept of “real rape” v. the reality of rape. Regarding “real rape,” it is often viewed as a violent assault involving a stranger (Rees, 2010). Rape myths are often false ideas of the experience of rape that are held by individuals regardless of the accuracy. Rape myths play a large role on how women perceive their experiences, sometimes leading them to be unsure if what they experienced should be labeled as rape or sexual assault (Heath, Lynch, Fritch, & Wong, 2013; Hockett, Saucier, & Badke, 2016). Heath, Lynch, Fritch, and Wong’s (2013) research found that victims that were physically harmed report the experience more often to the police, supporting the idea of “real rape” and other rape myths that prevent women from reporting their cases to the police. This notion plays largely into the idea of “real rape,” when, in reality, rape is often perpetrated by an individual known to the

A weakness in Maedl article was that the number of women interviewed was a few women, only twenty-five women at the Panzi hospital. The author does mention why they are interviewing such a small number when the author mentions a higher number of reported rape cases. If the number of women interview is small it could be hard for the reader to visualize the actual severity of women experiencing rape with the percentages given. With a larger number of women interviewed, there could be more diverse statements taken from the women and a pattern could be seen in the responses. This would then result in some clarity around the large number of women who have registered as rape victims in the DRC. I also thought that the author should expand her qualifications

Rape is a crime that many people will go endure through their life time. Melinda should have people that she can trust and talk about her rape assault. There are ways to comfort people who are going through a traumatizing event. There are countless people who are going through similar things to Milinda, it's up to them to speak up. Melinda got raped by Andy Evens at an end-of-summer party at Rodger’s Farm.Once she finally accepted that fact, things became easier for her. Speaking out is important. People who keep their mouth shut does more harm than good. Keeping silence gives the perspective to others that it is the victim fault. It’ll continue on the myths about rape and sexual assault instead of breaking it. Worst, by keeping silent, that

In this article we argue that the popular image of rape, a nonutilitarian act committed by a few “sick” men, is too limited a view of sexual violence because it excludes culture and social structure as pre-disposing factors. Our data come from interviews with 114 convicted, incarcerated rapists. Looking at rape from the perspective of rapists, we attempt to discover the function of sexual violence in their lives; what their behavior gained for them in a society seeming prone to rape. Our analysis reveals that a number of rapists used sexual violence as a method of revenge and/or punishment while others used it as a means of gaining access to unwilling or unavailable women. In some cases, rape was just a bonus added to burglary or robbery.

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.

The myths that were detailed in the Rape culture prezi highlights the bias, and unjust reality that we live in and how rape culture is deepened. The myths that only young pretty women are assaulted, that is most cases rape is caused by black men against black women and that people who dress or act provocatively they deserved to be raped since they “asked” for it reinforces the unjustness of Griffen’s theory on rape culture. Griffen’s theory on rape culture indicates that it is embedded into our social institutions and it is evident in the family structure. W.I.R. reveals how the wife is possession to her husband. It also talks about how society is a male hierarchy and that we live in a male dominated culture that denies women’s power (pg.518). Women are perceived to be the true oppression of men.