Cultural rape

Case Synopsis Linda Carter is an African American female that is twenty-two years of age. Ms. Carter has been diagnosed and suffers from several mental illnesses, such as Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder, Depression, and Anxiety. Ms. Carter also is Intellectually Disabled, and was/is a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and homelessness as a child and adult. Ms. Carter is the third child in a family of five, who parent substance abused. When Ms. Carter was nine years of age when she, and

The Effects of Sexualisation and Objectification on body image One of the biggest issues with the sexual objectification of women in the new media is its accessibility; as advertisements in new media are public information, this means that they are omnipresent. Long-term exposure to negative images of women set the infrastructure for the negative effects of self-body image in adulthood by normalising the act of sexualisation, objectification and male sexual violence, especially for a large section

In the text reading Delinquent Daughters: “Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States” Author Mary Odom states raising the age of sexual consent in the U.S. increased the number of people prosecuted for statutory rape among consenting teenagers. Laws Predicated on the backs of the immigrants, native Blacks, and Mexican workers who had consensual sex with the daughters of the white middle class or Working-class minorities under Patriarchal rule. Odom states due to differences

Faces blush, pupils cringe and minds zone out as the teacher brings out the ‘red’ box. The contents inside so horrifying that it makes even the most intrepid of learners escape from the classrooms. What is the fuss all about? It’s sex education - of course – the funniest and most pointless lessons. Yes, boys, you will learn how to put a condom on a plastic penis, and yes girls we will discuss your periods because we have to… sound familiar? It seems like teachers are forced to put up with this and

The Spiritual Growth of a Naive Young Girl Not very often do people get to experience watching a little girls view change in a short amount of time. In this reading by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza, who is a young teenage girl, gets to experience wise words from close people yet a terrible situation that causes her views to change on humanity. In Cisneros’ story, The House on Mango Street, she shows the changes of Esperanza's life through her experiences by the way she views men

No Visible Bruises Video Reaction: In the short video, No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story, Katie Koestner is first seen in the Dean’s office bringing forth her rape case to the Dean so she can charge her perpetrator, Victor for raping days earlier. Before Katie even enters the Dean’s office she is showing clear signs of distress after Victor raped her and keeps on having flashbacks about the event until the Dean calls her into her office. Katie tells the Dean her side of of the story

in this film was that most of the faculty members the victims went to seek help from were females, yet the victims were still blamed for their rape. One administrator from UNC at Chapel Hill told a victim “rape is like a football game” meaning that if you look back to that day, what would you have done differently to prevent the rape. Victims who report rapes to university faculties are often questioned about the clothes they wore that day, how much alcohol they had to drink if they said no to the

and drinking so much!” Although our society does not directly promote rape, people have created a faulty societal environment in which victims are blamed for their own assaults, rape perpetrators are viewed sympathetically, and the mainstream media glamorizes rape attitudes. One of the most tragic downfalls of our society is its tendency to normalize and often times even romanticize sexual assault and abuse. Unfortunately, rape culture is a major issue that is downplayed in the eye of the general

mythology. Zeus, the most powerful Greek God, is attracted to mortal women. Therefore he transforms himself into a swan, so that the mortal Leda does not fear him and even more so, that she would be attracted to the stunning presence of the swan. The rape is more extraordinary because she did not expect from the majestic swan to do such a thing. Due to the mutation of Zeus into a swan, Leda is left not only scared from the traumatic experience but also she has no trust in the world anymore, she does

- Is the protagonist of the novel, she is an 11 year old girl who got raped by her father, and carried his child. She is also a victim of domestic violence and bullying. This girl just wished to be accepted and loved but because she was known as an ugly, dark-skinned girl no one will accept her. Looking at how everyone treats the girls with long blonde straight hair and blue eyes, she longs to have blue eyes because she believes that by that one feature, it will solve all her problems. She is also