People don’t understand that when a criminal says they “couldn’t resist” that, in terms of rape, that it’s used as a defence. Any other crime and we call that a confession, and there’s something wrong with that.
The issue is rape culture; a concept where the idea of rape is pervasive and normalised within society. Things under the title of rape culture include victim blaming, the over-sexualisation of females, and the idea that society is better off with a patriarchal system. Other prejudiced views that have been found to link with the belief in rape culture are racism, homophobia and misogyny.
This “ideal” is making itself known within society, even if many do not know its name. It is most likely affecting you and your children, so what can
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Girls are often not allowed to wear shorts or vests in comparison to boys, who are permitted. Doing so will often result in detention or being sent home, which is more than what we can say we do if someone is being verbally or physically abused by their peers. What schools are saying by this is that they are more concerned about the fact that some kids can’t control themselves because they see some legs, than a girl’s education (which will support her for the rest of her life.) Remember, parents, this will be your daughter getting sent home for wearing pieces of fabric, this will be your daughter being sexualised by other pupils, this will be your daughter’s education being secondary to immature children. On the contrary others will say that if the girls just covered up there wouldn’t be a problem, or that it is expected of teenagers to act improperly because of their age. However, why should girls cover up to a ludicrous extent just to please others when we can simply teach people to respect each other?
There are so many things that invoke victim blaming, but other factors include that women had previously “led on” their rapist by flirting, and that they “shouldn’t have provoked them”. Being a prostitute is often perceived as immediate consent to sex, and also when someone says “no” to a previously consented act it goes