American Rape Culture Summary

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Margaret R Miles writes that Western culture in American
Christianity sets out to have evolved into a rape culture. This portrays the myths that are involved with our culture in the United
States. Women are sadly unequal to men in our society creating a standard towards women in media, religious beliefs, and clichés that make it difficult to be able to disconnect men from women.
The first brief section she writes about is how rape is universal.
However, as rape happens widely throughout the world, it by no means universal. There are some societies that can be classified as rape free. That being said, people say that there are two reasons for the universalization of rape throughout western feminist. This brings a fear to women that there is a possibility that rape can happen everywhere. …show more content…

This is a poor excuse for men to touch women in ways since it is in their insticts of sexual desire. These natural insticts of men are shameful and criminal yet some just continue to call it ‘natural’. However, Women and Men are biologically different from one another creating a different way we look at things. Margaret uses the phrases ‘dyke’, ‘butch’, and ‘delusional’. These words have been said if a female shows any characteristics of being strong or aggressive. For women they are constantly put down about their emotions or