Rape In The United States

Rape is a major struggle in today’s society. It’s not talked about as much as it should be, and a main reason for that is because our society makes it seem normal. Looking into it, it most definitely is not normal. The statistics revolving it are out of this world. Reasonings why it happens and how it affects everyone involved are unbearable. The only thing left for all of us to do is get educated about it, and take a stand to help make a change. In the United States, a rape is reported at least one time every five minutes. That being said, it causes us to also be ranked 13th in the entire world as the country with the most rapes. Getting more in depth with that are the estimated numbers of rapes every year. The lowest number of women is 300,000 which leads 1.3 million women at the highest. There is no need for the numbers to
A big argument in our schools lately is about our dress codes. We should be teaching young men to not discriminate women. Instead, we’re teaching young women that their education is not as important as them not distracting a male student. The school should be there in support for a young lady if harassed instead of immediately assuming they were asking for it. No one asks for this. Our schools should teach everyone right from wrong instead of allowing girls to walk out of school alone and afraid. If someone can teach a puppy the word “no”, then surely a young man can learn it too.
Rape culture shows the way in which society blames victims of sexual assault and normalize male sexual violence. Rape is not normal. Moving forward from rape and bettering our society for all generations to come is a must. One way to do this to face that the real problems are violent masculinity and victim blaming. We also need to get the media up to date and to end rape jokes. Everything is always put on the victim, and when it’s not our media starts talking down on feminist. The only way to move forward is to stand