Open Up Rhetorical Analysis

Although women can be perpetrators, they are more often the victims of abuse than men. According to Blair, McFarlane, Nava, Gilroy, and Maddoux (2015), 92 percent of domestic violence offenders are male (p. 23).

It is also stereotyped that a man is the one to be the abuser. This is not true. Men are almost equally abused or taken advantage of. “Historically there has been a culture of permission that accepts and condones violence against women” (Dr. Jerkins, White, Joseph). As a society we live by this. Thinking it only a man who is an abuser when naturally domestic violence can and is sometimes a mutual on going. A women slapping and throwing things is more

Studies show that men are more likely to forcibly abused, however women are more likely to persuaded to participate in sexual activity. In regard to inmate-on-inmate abuse in prison, males are 16% more likely than females who are at 6% to have been victimized over eleven or more times, to have been bribed and offered protection, or threatened with harm. Females are less likely to report incidents that involve multiple perpetrators such as incidents initiated by gang.

Did you know that men could also be abused ? Some people do not believe that men do not get abused because they are supposed to be strong willed men. At a young age the boy may start experience abuse from their father or mother, secondly the most common abuser would be the wife. In the article “Women as the Abuser” written by Kimberly Taylor said that when she interviews a group women who were the sole the abuser, that majority of them did not use nonphysical tactics (Taylor). Men also have a hard time coming forward about the abuse because he knows that no one would believe him all just because he is a man. Men do not have the same laws that protects them from abused like the women do. For example, if you see a man beat on a woman, people

What would you do if you found yourself in a violent situation? Someone tries to fight you when you’re on the subway on your daily commute to work? Would you try to run away, or call the police? Now what if it’s someone you love, and you can’t run away because it was your fault anyway and they need you. This is how 1 in 4 American men feel. The Stigma against men talking about domestic abuse is harmful and often makes men feel that they can’t talk about it due to the hyper-masculinity in our media

Men are raised to believe it is normal in our society to be masculine, strong and powerful. It’s normal to hear watch on the news how a women was found murdered and beaten to death. The men that do these horrific acts aren’t

Many of the violence against men are not recognized because police and hospitals are only trained to look for violence against women (Cook, 2004). If they see a man with a black eye, they think it's because he was in a fight with another man. In fact, it seems that no one wants to hear about male victims. To the public, they are an embarrassment and threaten the validity of the stereotype that the majority of men are violent and aggressive. Sometimes they are blamed for being the victims or the violence against them is justified in a variety of ways (Flor, 1999). As a culture we prefer to make the male victims the subject of humor and banter, not offer them help.

The outcome of this research proposal intends to recommend ways these media platforms can improve their relationship with male victims of domestic violence, and subsequently decrease associated stigmas throughout the

Sexual violence against men does occasionally make the news and to the public. The photographs of the sexual abuse and humiliation of Iraqi men at the Abu Ghraib prison, for example, stunned the world. And it's not just a prison superstitious thing. Men get raped in their homes and on the streets all the time also.

Men are 2 to 3 times more likely than women to keep quiet about abuse from a female partner as a result of stigma and stereotypes surrounding the idea of violence against men. And although it may not sound like a lot, when one male every 10 days is murdered due to domestic assault from a partner, 2

The reason why the majority of victims of sexual assault are female is simply due to the patriarchal society that we live in and its victim-blaming tendencies. Women are taught how to protect themselves from men who they are told are unable to control their hormones (the old adage "boys will be boys). Point of fact, when a man assaults a woman the first question asked is not one of condolence but one that condemns the woman. "What were you wearing? Did you drink a lot? Did you try to fight him off? Did you say no?" The burden is put on the victim instead of asking the perpetrator why he did it. In such a society, when the actions of male hostile/aggressive advances on women often go unpunished or unquestioned, it is easy to see why most victims

As discussed in class, one of the most influential agencies of socialization is the media. The way we see ourselves or the way other people see us come from what we are told by others and what we tell ourselves. In the Better world handbook, the chapter on media states that “the way we think and act in our daily lives is inextricably linked to the information we receive about the world” (Jones, Haenfler and Johnson). The chapter continues to discus how information delivered to us can be bias and this raises the issue on who controls the media and what we see through it. The problem with this could be that that whoever controls the media does not necessary have our best interest in mind and the content that is transmitted through the media is profit driven. . In the article “Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong” gives a perfect accept of how easy it is for information to get omitted based on what people what you to know and what they don’t want you to know. From a young age, people decide what they want you to know, so that they can decide on what they want you to think about certain topics whether its American history or something else, its like the

Simmons, Lehmann, and Collier-Tenison (2008) report 85 percent of those arrested for domestic violence are male. Many of the females arrested for domestic violence claim they are themselves victims of violence at the hands of their male partners and are either directly or indirectly acting in

Not only women and children, men can be victims as well. But their experiences during violence are different. Men tend to bury their thoughts deep in the heart; it means they would rather be silent than speak out. Most likely men are mental victims in violence compared to women. Overall, speaking of the size, women and children are still the main victim in terms of domestic violence.

Males are portrayed in television as the ones who are violent behind closed doors and the story always ends up with the women fighting back or going to the police. And the police goes and arrests the husband or boyfriend and there is a happy ending, right? Well, that’s not how the cookie crumbles, media has portrayed that all female victims of domestic violence and men are overlooked of domestic violence. Society has it in their minds that women are vulnerable are weak and they can’t fight back because they are scared to go to the police in fear of their lives. Domestic violence is not about size, gender, or strength of a man or a woman. It’s about the abuse, control, and power, and getting out of dangerous situations and getting help, whether you are a women being abused, or a man. (John Brown executive director and founder of the Domestic Abuse Hotline for