In her magazine article, “No, #MeToo Isn’t McCarthyism,” found in the January 2018 issue of The Atlantic, writer Sophie Gilbert refutes various criticisms targeting #MeToo, a recent social media campaign created to spread awareness of the frequency of sexual harassment and assault. She distinguishes serious sexual assault and harassment allegations from claims against men who are merely unpleasant by noting that the former is comprised of rape accusations, while the latter is only “a collection of misconduct allegations and rumors” (2). Critics of #MeToo have attempted to undermine the movement by arguing that it is a facade to allow people to falsely accuse others of sexual harassment and assault. As a result, the accused usually suffer from
In “Crime and Punishment: The saga of Richie Parker” published in Sports Illustrated, Gary Smith helps to explain just how many people are affected by a single sexual assault case. He does this in a very unique style by giving 12 sections explaining the incident from different points of view and the effects of a single crime. One person affected was Jill Agostino, the sports copy editor for Newsday. Her unnamed colleague had given her a copy of an article he was writing on Richie Parker and called asking if she liked it. Little did he know, stories like his were keeping her up at night, reminding her of the time she was raped nine years earlier.
In the 1980s, the world experienced many social changes and throughout the United States, social and foreign issues occupied the Post-Vietnam community. In Thomas Boyle’s “Greasy Lake,” he focuses his writing on the many societal issues that occupy the era in history and uses teenage experience to capture the horrors of the Vietnam war. With a New Historicist and Feminist lens, Boyle highlights the social issues of the 1980s by revealing the attitude towards the female characters and the role of the main protagonist in regard to social interactions after the Vietnam war. The 1980s marked the beginning of a new era in American history for the United States had pulled out of the Vietnam War; furthermore, Boyle takes advantage of this time period
In the book, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in College Town, by Jon Krakauer, the reader delves into how rape and sexual assault are treated in the town of Missoula, and the University of Montana. As the reader, we are informed on how the university, the police department, the district attorney’s office, and the community reacted to these rape and sexual assault allegations. We see how the criminal justice system has failed the victims, and are forced to live with what happened to them, while their assailants are free of any burden. The law is set in place to protect people from victimization, but when the men, in this book, are not legally held accountable, then any woman, or man, is more susceptible to victimization. It is interesting
Through many dystopias, the argument shown is the theme of power, fear, religion, and education. Books like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale show a strong government figure or idea by showing an appeal to fear. Both have a problem with propaganda through corrupted education. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, has a strong focus on religion and using it to justify rape. The main character in The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, is a handmaid for the Republic of Gilead.
Every sixty-eight seconds, an American is sexually assaulted, and it is stated that only twenty-five out of every one thousand perpetrators will see the consequences of their actions (RAINN). Now, imagine if the world was a place where victims felt as if they could speak up and receive proper assistance without question and judgment. Imagine if every sexual assault case concluded with justice for the victim. Laurie Halse Anderson tells her own story of sexual violence and the struggles of the aftermath through the eyes of high school freshman, Melinda Sordino, in her work Speak. Throughout the novel, Melinda internally fights with herself on who to protect, herself and other females around her, or her attacker’s reputation.
As a result, sexual assault hurts women physically and mentally: however, the fear of exposing the powerful may result from being casted as a liar and ridiculed is still hindered in today’s society. Sexual assault Is extremely painful event to the victims. To explain, Sexual assault creates eminence amounts of tortuous agony for the victim. From Thurman’s previous statement,“ He pushed me down... He tried to shove himself on me”, which
The rape myths that R. v. Ewanchuk includes within its case is heavily linked to the social construction of males and females involved in sexual assault cases. The outcome of this case largely impacted the feminist movement in a strong way. This case changed the future of sexual assault cases within many ways. To begin with, consent must be determined from the complainants/victims mind opposed to his or her actions. Secondly, there are many forms of physical actions along with verbal ways of issuing to refuse consent.
I am writing this letter to support Jessica Evans’ application to the Master of Arts in Psychology program (Industrial/Organizational concentration) at the University of West Florida. I have served as Ms. Evans professor and academic advisor since fall 2016. Currently, she is enrolled in my Research Methods and Statistics II course and is working with me for Psychological Research and Investigations. Over the past semester, I watched Ms. Evans work as a full-time student, work an internship, and work a part-time job all while earning a 3.529 GPA. As a result, I observed her strengths to be determination and hard work.
Once a week, the Handmaids’ escort themselves with the assistance of Aunt Helena and Aunt Lydia to the Domestic Science room. The sensation of comfortness in this area does not alter the probability of an unpeaceful awakening. The maids are forced to view explicit movies which have the description of “Unwoman” and are taught that a woman who acts in this manner wastes valuable time in her life. Offred reminisces on the sickening explanation for the pressure of sitting through a screening without the chance of leaving when she speaks out saying, “ They want us to hear the screams and grunts and shrieks of what is supposed to be either extreme pain or extreme pleasure or both at once, but they don't want us to hear what the Unwomen are saying” (Atwood 138). These horrifying sounds are being engraved into the womens’ brains which will manifest a new fear.
In their opinion piece published in the New York Times, Miriam Gleckman-Krut and Nicole Bedera, two students from University of Michigan, claim that students being accused of sexual assault on-campus should not be the ones providing the definition of sexual assault because more victims will stay silent. Their article tackles the research question “how does allowing the accused to define sexual assault affect the victim?”. The piece was written in response to Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, who claimed that former President Obama’s policies on on-campus rape stripped the accused of their liberties because less evidence was required from the victims, who often struggle to create concreate evidence due to trauma or difficulty remembering.
It’s safe to say “A mother knows best” is a saying you’ve all heard before. Yet, during the transition from childhood to adolescence, each individual mystically turns into this evil and traitorous creature, called a “teenager”. During that time, a majority rebel, others will grow to be defiant and some even pick up an attitude, here and there. Yet, collectively, they all swear that their parents know nothing and that they somehow encompass the knowledge of the world in roughly 13-17 years. Realistically speaking, without your parents you wouldn’t know right from wrong, your left foot from your right, or even how to tie a shoe.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood demonstrates a quizzical protagonist, Offred, in a dystopian, totalitarian society where fertile women are only a mere vessel for child birth. Every month during Offred’s menstrual cycle her Commander, Fred, and his wife Serena Joy perform detached intercourse while Serena holds Offred’s hands. The handmaids of the Republic of Gilead are not allowed to use their mind for knowledge nor take part in formal society. They are but the vacuous-minded property to their Commanders and their infertile wives. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred discloses the day to day moments and her commicalOffred had once lived in a world where she was her own person with a job and a home with a family of her own but now she lives under unfortunate circumstances that disable her from being a true, soulful human.
Freshman year, total paranoia, I had no idea what expect and thought everyone hated me. I set myself up for failure daily. Here I was, just some five foot eight kid with short hair and a stocky build, I wasn’t lean and muscular like most of my class or most of the people above me. I didn’t know where I belonged or where I really wanted to go with my high school career. My only friends were juniors, and they were really my brother’s friends.
Throughout chapter four Atwood describes the woman 's loss of identity and how ashamed they are at life. “I drop my head and turn so that the white wings hide my face, and keep walking” Offred is nearly humiliated and embarrassed about the life she is currently living. The handmaid’s are not allowed to find in full-indicates this shows how controlled they are. “A shape like mine, a nondescript woman” women are all the same, such as, they all have the same task in hand, they feel as if there idently has been strpied from them. In the society handmaids live in they could just “simply be replaced” as is if no one would notice.
