Global Oriented Response Paper

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…”

Rainman, 1988, directed by Barry Levinson is a drama, that revolves around Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and his autistic brother Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). Charlie is unaware of his brothers existence until the death of their father, when he goes to collect his inheritance from his father’s lawyer he learns that Raymond was left all three million dollars of his father’s money. Unsatisfied with only receiving a car and rose bush from his father, Charlie takes Raymond with him to Los Angeles, as ransom for his father’s inheritance.

Collaborate with community women’s groups to design and facilitate workshops and forums to address issues of violence from many perspectives, particularly against women and girls. For example PAVE, IWD, TBTN

In the beginning of the play antigone loses both of her brothers and is faced with a predicament that goes against her morals. Originally, antigone's brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, were expected to alternate the thrown. When the original agreement was ignored that is when problems arose for Antigone. To start things off she has two brothers that are manipulated and obsessed with holding power. They are so power hungry that they are willing to fight each other in a civil war that ended in both their deaths.

According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, gender equality means “women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. It does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same, or that they be treated exactly alike.” To eliminate these biases, the first step would be stopping harmful acts against females like sex trafficking, rape, sexual harassment, etc.

I would like to learn more about what else could be done to ensure a safe work environment for transgender individuals. I also would like to learn more about protective factors that these people have and what resources could be used as protective factors for young and middle adulthood transgender people. This project helps to increase awareness of oppression because, the cruel and prolong unjust treatment of individuals has been going on for a very long time and with understanding the trans community and the difficulties they face that I was unaware of we see how oppression very much still occurs today. This project also helped to relate intersectionality to oppression. As quoted in the power point by Audre Lord “There is no such thing as a

Throughout history, it is evident that inequalities and disparities are part of health systems and society. Even after all the success of activism, such as the work from the human rights movement and campaign, inequalities and disparities are still evident today. Especially within minority groups, such as LGBTQ* (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) individuals – this is not to say that LGBTQ are the only categories when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identities, thus it is followed by a * – and racial groups. Furthermore, it is evident that within minority groups there are specific micro-level groups that experience unique and sometimes even greater amount of inequalities and disparities. For example, the micro-level group of transgender individuals from the LGBTQ* community is one of the many minority groups that experience both medical and social disparities and inequalities.This paper will discuss both the medical and social inequalities and disparities that Transgender Individuals face, including structural violence and intentional violence.

In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is a very important character. she has a major role involving the death of king Duncan and has a strong ambition to take control of the crown. Lady Macbeth shows the characteristics of being selfish, devious and ruthless.

As leaders in the community, police officers often have a large impact on the people in the community that they serve. Negative actions towards transgender individuals on the behalf of officers can spin off public disrespect to this population. Public transgender figures are not shy to share their battles with discrimination. While her transition has been

CSI featured a transgender serial killer in one episode. Stryker calls these “psycho-killer-in-a-dress stereotypes”. To make matters worse there were scenes in which transgender murder victims were ridiculed by the show’s main characters while investigating the crime scene and examining their bodies. The victim’s gender identity became the butt of a joke. But while the trans community is being represented as killers, they are also the ones who are being murdered. Media has a habit of “telling the world a story that transgender people are always victims or villains, instead of true depictions that show the transgender community as citizens worthy of equality and respect” (Kane, 2013).

She makes another statement affirming her position that female oppression could be related to anything but human constructs that must be destroyed:

Women around the world are sexually assaulted and victimised, with lack of support systems resulting in them being silenced, leaving them with long term effects such as depression and other mental illnesses and fears of being attacked again. The women that are sexually abused feel that they're being targeted again, either when they're talking about it and receive negative feedback, the fact that they have a higher chance of being assaulted again, and that the fear of the court procedures that they'd have to experience. Most women don't report being raped or having been sexually assaulted because it's such a traumatic event, they fear further injury, fear the court procedures, and they don't want to talk about it, leading them to not get the

The struggle for equality has been intense, and still continues to this day. With this being said, much progress has been made in establishing respect and external acceptance for all individuals sense of identity. For example, in 2015 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Same Sex Marriages, marking a pivotal point in the civil rights movement for the LGBTQ community. For many, this act helped to support their sense of self, a right that been denied for so long. The United States effectively validated the LGBTQ community, giving this group all rights granted to all other citizen’s, However, the creation and acceptance of this community has not had positive benefits for all members. The Gender Binary has been changed, but many distinctions

In the article “Sexual Violence is a Crime, Sometimes”, the author is Maya Mikdashi who is well known for writing about gender and sectarian issues occurring in Lebanon. The author addresses a very touching and interesting topic, sexual violence, which should be everyone’s because anyone, no matter what is his or her gender, could be subjected to sexual violence. Marital rape has been a very prevalent issue in Lebanon, and the civil law exempts the husband who attempts marital rape. Although marriage grants both partners rights to each other’s bodies, this doesn’t mean

The social issue that I chose which affects society today is transgender inequality. These issues are more recently gaining attention and becoming a prevalent topic of inequality within our country. A transgender person is someone whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. As more and more transgender people share their stories in the media, the social problems that arise from these stories are discrimination within their everyday lives. They suffer from scrutiny and judgment from their peers, and thus many hide their gender identity from family and society. This social injustice can be as simple as a glance or staring, or offensive comments and questions to violent hate crimes. Transgender people are prone to violence and harassment, and often not feeling safe in any aspect of society. They are fired from jobs, denied medical insurance, and being murdered left and right solely for being transgender. “A staggering 41% of respondents reported attempting suicide compared to 1.6% of the general population, with rates rising for those who lost a job due to bias (55%), were harassed/bullied in school (51%), had low household income, or were the victim of physical assault (61%) or sexual assault (64%)” (National Center for Transgender Equality). The structure of this paper will consist of adding all the research that was gathered over the semester, news articles and peer