Reflection Paper On The Cry Of Tamar

Domestic violence is something that happens every day around the world. Young, old, rich or poor, this is an issue that we must look at to better ourselves as a country. One of the things that we look at is how domestic violence relates to the different social classes of the country, this being upper, middle, and lower. Some would thing that it would be more common in lower classes, but the reality of it is domestic violence is a problem across all social classes. In this paper I will discuss different articles about domestic violence and its relation to social class. It is clear to see that many of the articles on this topic focus around women as victims and men get put into a category of the only ones committing violence. From different

Women are sexually exploited in the media. In today’s society if people watch television programs such as Chingy featuring Snoop & Ludacris – Holidae; Charlie's Angels; the Z100 commercial with Britney Spears; or Baywatch they will see that the feminine image is presented differently than the masculine. In these programs men are typically placed in sexual situations fully clothed, while women are presented in provocative clothing or less. The camera will frequently zoom in on body parts to focus on the woman’s buttocks, midriff, and legs. Society is still dominated by men who control what people see. As a result women are increasingly portrayed as sex symbols as a way for a media company to turn

Hundred of years of male domination in the country has created unequal values of gender issues in the society such as work, payment, and rights. Gender issue has become a controversy that doesn’t have any direct solution to solve. In this paper, I will investigate the intertextuality between two pieces, “As With Most Men” by Mark Gonzales and a TED video named “Violence Against Women – It’s a Men’s Issue” by Jackson Kitz. In the poem of “As With Most Men”, Mark Gonzales strongly portrays the image of gender violence, especially on how men are walking contradicts who will emotionally and physically abuse women. Likewise, Jackson Katz also touches on the same topic of gender issue, which he purposes men are the ones who responsible for gender violence.

“The Longest War” by Rebecca Solnit convinces readers that the violence against women are in the content of the United States and the world. Solnit presented information that is regarding violence and rape statistical and personal views of gender and the inequality of male violence toward comparing women’s violence to men or women. She uses numerical facts ad provides statements of how this affects the way women perceive their surroundings. Solnit clearly makes a strong frequency and violence of rape by listing the details of rape and violence eight times within the first paragraph of the text. She uses many examples of how rape is a gendered issue and how many victims that fall prey to violence which lends us toward an engaging need to

The article constructs domestic violence as an issue of gender, race and socioeconomic status. Women are identified as the “majority” of victims (Taylor 2014). Consequently, the article conceptually represents domestic violence as events of intimate terrorism where one partner violently terrorizes the other partner to gain complete control over the relationship, which is entirely perpetrated by men (Johnson 2012). With that said, Johnson (2012) points out that majority of domestic violence is situational couple violence, where both the man and the

Sexual assault and violence is increasing due to advertisements misinforming people into believing that such behavior is acceptable. “In the 1960’s Kilbourne found that she received more recognition for her looks rather than her intelligence” (Grean and Lidinisky, 490). Perhaps this is why Kilbourne wrote her book, Deadly Persuasion, analyzing this problem. Kilbourne found herself in the environment bubble the media is creating where the objective analysis of people is acceptable. Kilbourne’s book is an attempt to bring awareness towards how much harm the media’s portrayal of people is generating. Kilbourne’s book is mainly targeted towards women, and is trying to spur them towards action in an attempt to change the world and, more

The thesis of the article written by Aashika Damodar is; “Gender-based violence both in the developed and developing world are a complex blend of structural and cultural challenges, many of which are enhanced and enabled by communicative technology.” One example that is made in favor of the thesis is the “Mensajes De Paz”. Which is film documentary on gender-based violence in Guatemala. Where over 6000 women have been killed in last ten years and only two percent were convicted.

Barbara Perry’s article “Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately” addresses violence and gender, and how gender is influenced through the way it is perceived in society. The construction of gender comes in polar extremes, with masculine dominant men and feminine subordinate women. Gendered violence is used to control women as a class. It is a systematic tool used by men to reinforce gender norms and patriarchal ideas of masculine superiority and feminine inferiority. It “terrorizes the collective by victimizing the individual”. Like any dichotomy, it has scripts, and to deviate from these scripts will leave you labeled as ‘unnatural’ and ‘immoral’. These scripts “constrain everything from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire”. In Judith Lorber’s “A World Without Gender” we are introduced to the possibility of eliminating gender and how “degendering [would] undercut the patriarchal and oppressive structure of Western Societies”.

Domestic Violence is a human tragedy, and has been a part of life for many individuals. It is not subjective to a particular group, race, or culture. Historically, the feminist movement preserved the theory that domestic violence is a growing matter because of the continuous power differential between the male gender and the female gender. Remarkably, this approach on domestic disputes unveiled the inner workings of barriers men, women, and children would face when in a domestic violence situation. The feminist theory emphasizes on studying “the gendered nature of all relationships…which aims at understanding how gender is related to social inequalities and oppression” (Marsigila & Kulis, 2015, p. 148). Disastrously, an ignorant notion that once dominated our culture was the belief that emotional agony was less painful than physical brutality. However,

In demonstrating our first point of what ideologies about women look like and devices used, both in media and in society. In order to fully make thisfrom Leslie Weisman. Carter’s article focuses on the media’s portrayal as women specifically, “stereotypes of women and men (that) perpetuate the sexual inequality of women” (370). Specifically these stereotypes include that women are submissive and passive and are particularly harmful when combined with ideas that women are most valued for their sexuality, looks and domesticity. The reading from Weisman furthers explains how these ideas are linked to violence by showing how it occurs most often when women are not following these ideologies, such as a woman being outside the domicile, or just because the nature of these stereotypes depicts women as easily victimized (69).

The purpose of this paper is to explore patriarchal values that reinforce violence towards women in intimate partner relationships. This paper argues that patriarchy and the social construction of masculinity reproduce male violence against women. The following sub-issues that that will be discussed are patriarchy, capitalism, the religion of Islam, and the construction of masculinity and femininity. All the sub-issues encompass patriarchy values which allows inmate partner violence.

I have never read the The Cry of Tamar before but after reading it realized it is a relatable story to violence that still happens today. Tamar was a young innocent girl who just did what her brother asked thinking she was helping him to feel better. Her brother Amnon lust over her and plots to get her alone. He then forces himself on her even after she begs and pleads with him. Even after confiding in her brother Absalom and her dad David find out they tell her to not take it to heart and to not speak of it. They blow her off as if she was the one in the wrong and is reduced to a label an, It, with no voice. The story demonstrates the power and privilege that resides in men.

Violence on women has been an ongoing issue for many, many years. So, in reading the book, “The Cry of Tamar”, I could relate to many things that were mentioned in the book. Unfortunately, both women and men can be treated unfairly in relationships.

The concept of violence might only represent a negative image. It refers to a set of radical human behaviors, for example, perpetrator would use physical force to hurt or kill people on purpose. Besides, the typology of violence in World Health Organization (WHO) has an explicit structure, which comprise physical, psychological, and sexual to families, partners, friends or strangers (). However, in this essay I shall focus on critically analyzing Farkhanda Younis’ story, which could reflect how violence against women as an urgent issue in our society.

When I picked up the book off of my door step, I hardly expected to stumble across such a valuable tool for my future in human resources, and in my life in general. I almost cursed the FedEx driver for not accidentally delivering it next door. I admittedly judged the book by its cover, I thought that it was going to be a laborious read with a ton of hours spent trying to stay focused on the task of completing it and remembering enough to make a fair grade. Although my initial instinct proved to be correct with the first twenty or so pages, the book slowly progressed into a something that I was interested in. Coupled with the recent attention on gender equality and dealing with my wife’s struggles and strife. This book has tuned into an enrichening experience that I will likely reference sometime in my future. The Cry of Tamar was a good book, it enhanced my understanding of the structure, forms of, and responses to the male forces against women.