Roxane Gay Rape

Roxane Gay’s “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence” is a response essay to a newspaper article, in New York Times, titled “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town”, written by James Mckinely. The New York Times article is about an eleven-year-old girl, who was gang raped by eighteen men. Roxane Gay mainly focuses on sexual violence and how the media badly presents it to their audience. In her essay, she informs the readers the way that, James Mckinely article only focuses on one side of the story, and that’s the men’s side. She explains that she feels that this is unfair to the victim. She also expresses how our society doesn’t care to much about rape and the victims that are being raped. There are some points that I agree with and disagree with in response to Roxane Gay’s essay about rape. While I don’t quite agree with her about how our society is insensitive about rape and how it affects our victims, and also how she considers America as a “rape culture”, I do agree with her when she expresses that the media blames the victims for the reasons they are raped. At the beginning of her article, she talks about how James Mckinely was only concerned about the men and how the
She says, “The casual way in which we deal with rape may begin and end with television and movies where we are inundated with images of sexual and domestic violence (130). I completely disagree with Roxane Gay. America is not a rape culture and we are very much concerned about this crime, especially the women of our culture. Television shows and movies are not meant to make anyone feel some type or way or to make fun of the crime. I think that they are made to inform us on the trials and tribulations of the crime and being that it is discussed all the time, it must means that America does care. Some people care deeply about rape and some people don’t. She shouldn’t point the finger to the society as a