Rape Of Rape

First, there is the story my mother told me when I was a teenager. Before then I never realized how dangerous and scary it can be for woman. Years ago, my mother had been the victim of gun violence. She was in high school when it happened. Around the time of the incident, there was a news report of a man, a rapist that had attacked a few women in the area. The news advised women to have someone accompany them if they were to be out walking. Although my mother had seen the report, she figured she would be safe walking around her own neighborhood. Later that week, she was walking home from school, walking along the same route that she took every day after school. She was alone. Her mind wandered, as it did most days when she walked home alone.

Most women, are extremely apprehensive of doing things alone, whether it be walking down the street or going to a public restroom. From a young age, women have been taught to use the buddy system, in which they always make certain they have a friend with them when doing anything. As these women get older the buddy system becomes imprinted in their minds, and they begin to understand why this is such a requirement. The world is afflicted with people, more commonly men, who when they see a female alone, they see her as a vulnerable object, waiting to be taken advantage of. This has made the sexual assault of women a very common occurrence in society.

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

On a college campus, a young female slowly returns to her dormitory a few hours before sunrise. She is a college freshman and she is embarrassed and confused. Late last night, she attended a party where alcohol flowed freely, the music blared and young men and women unabashedly flirted through the night. She vaguely remembers a young man guiding her up the stairs to a secluded room. She begins to cry as she reassures herself that she said the word no multiple times and physically attempted to stop the young man from stripping the clothes from her body and sexually assaulting her. She questions how she let this happen. After all, only months ago she was attending her high school graduation and weeks ago her parents were helping her move her

Frustratingly, these days, some people still treat sexual assault as an “okay” thing, making comments such as “she was asking for it” and that she was “equally responsible” for the situation. This is exactly the sort of mindset that is contributing to the startling statistics today.

Today’s society is full of insane and demented human beings who don’t seem to know right from wrong. A lot of people suffer because of this, especially college students. Simple assault, abduction, and rape are three crimes that have been on the rise throughout college campuses all over the United States. From 2008 to 2012 forcible rape increased by forty-nine percent in four-year colleges. It jumped from 2,370 to 3,621 in a matter of four years (Shapiro). We as individuals have the ability to help keep ourselves safe from these kinds of people. We are provided with a variety of resources and information including forms of personal protection, body strength, and safety in numbers. The problem is we are not utilizing these to the best of our ability. I know we all think that we are invincible and nothing terrible could happen to us, but the reality is, it can.

It is clear by just a few examples that rape has more misconceptions than it should. If people would be more open to discussing this touchy topic, more could be done to prevent

In most recent years there has been an epidemic of sexual assaults across the nation. In the United States alone, a rape occurs every 6.2 minutes resulting in 1 out of every 5 women as well as 1 out of every 71 men being sexually assaulted or raped in their lifetime. This problem has been something that has been hushed for many years affecting the lives of the victims for a lifetime. We the nation need to take a stand to teach our young men and women that it is inappropriate to violate a person’s personal space without consent. This problematic phenomenon has not only affected the lives of the people throughout today’s society, but has become a tremendous outbreak within college campuses.

http://www.safehorizon.org/page/rape--sexual-assault-54.html?gclid=CMDFiLTfrswCFQmSaQodtvMEWQ "Rape & Sexual Assault. " Safe Horizon. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. This website gives you the definition of sexual assault and rape.

In the United States, there are about 80,000 women and men that were raped behind bars. The mission of PCAR, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, is to work together to demolish all forms of sexual violence. They also can recommend their rights to victims of sexual violence. PCARS core is the statewide network of sexual violence centers that help work with PCAR for quality services to survivors. The center provides 24 hour services, 7 days a week, free intervention,support group counseling, hospital and etc.

Many of these guidelines are current responses to publicity and lawsuits against colleges, in which each college wanted to, make clear the college’s position is disapproving of the college sexual assault (Boering, 2006). While most colleges offer campus sexual assault programs for girls, including education to promote the awareness of rape, acquaintance rape, and other sex offenses, forcible or non-forcible, but these same colleges do not obligate sexual assault prevention education for men (Boering, 2006). Furthermore, most guidelines target stranger assaults when most of the research has revealed that acquaintance assaults are the most common form of sexual assaults on college campuses (Boering, 2006). Blue lights with hotlines directly to the campus police do unquestionably nothing to help with the safety of women on college campuses, it is always easier to change the physical atmosphere than it is to reply to the attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate and legitimate sexual assault on the college campus (Boering,

March 16th, 2017 was the fateful day that a 14 year old girl's life was changed forever. She is a freshman at Rockville High School and was raped by two illegal immigrants, Jose Montano, 17, and Henry Sanchez, 18. This horrendous act caused an outrage in the Montgomery County community. Many protested outside of the high school with signs screaming “safety not sanction” and “save our daughters no sanction” ("Rockville High School Parents Demand Answers in Rape Case"video). There is more than meets the eye when it comes to this case and there is plenty of evidence to prove so.

As reported by, feminist criminologists, their perspective of rape and sexual assault differ between liberal and radical feminists. Liberal feminists’ viewpoint in regards of rape as a gender-neutral assault on a persons’ autonomy and mainly focusing on the harm that rape can do to an individual. In contrast, radical feminists describe rape as a subject to be recognised and understood as a major pillar of patriarchy; a social system in which men claim the positions of dominance and control of the central norms and values that are linked with masculinity (Johnson, 2005: p. 4-15). The radical feminists believe that rape is a patriarchal structure within male power, thus displaying the harms that rape can do to an individual and as a group of women. Furthermore, the radical feminists approach view rape as male have the control and authority over the use of women’s bodies, which involves the sexual and reproductive. Hence, this is the core element of patriarchy, Radical feminist believe that rape is one of many forms that connects men’s sexual exploitation and violence, as well as, reinforcing women’s oppression (Whisnant, 2013).

Like many women, I fear walking by myself after dark, particularly after 9pm. The reason is simple: I’m afraid of being raped, attacked or being abducted. This isn’t an irrational fear; an American is sexually assaulted every two minutes, and 9 out of 10 survivors are women (Statistics). Although vigilance and a touch of paranoia make us feel like we’re doing something to protect ourselves; a pathological fear is not healthy. What’s perhaps more frustrating is that my experience is not unique. It’s entirely common. In fact, women are more than twice as likely to fear walking alone at night than men.

College-age adults are known to be high risk for sexual violence and most studies show that one in three women have experiences some type of sexual assault whether it was through physical force or harassment. These statics are known by most women on college campuses to ensure that women know and understand that this could happen to them. The issue is more than ensuring that women are aware of how protect themselves and know how to avoid these situations because it shouldn’t even be happening. When women are taught that they should know how to defend themselves we are saying that this type of behavior is normal and inevitable. We should shift from this dynamic and start teaching both men and women that this behavior is completely unacceptable and that sexually assaulting or harassing someone is NOT normal. This paper will mostly focus on incidents of rape and sexual assault on college campuses and what the outcome and reactions of these incidents were.