Slut Shaming In America

America has had a long history of discriminating against those who do not conform to society's standard of normal. Sexual discrimination has always been a hot topic of discussion, everything from slut shaming, rape culture and the lgbtq community. The effects of these topics have been both negative and positive and have impacted America in many ways. Slut shaming is the act of making another person for guilty for his or her sexual experiences. The topic of slut shaming has been discussed very frequently in the past few years for many reasons. Women are starting to embrace their sexuality more and more which causes men and even other women to feel very uncomfortable. Women embracing and enjoying their sexuality makes others feel uncomfortable
Rape culture is very serious and has brought pain, judgement and guilt on many victims of rape and sexual assault. Rape culture tells men and and women who have been raped or sexually assaulted that is their fault. Rape culture allows the rapist to walk free because of their social status or it causes the victim to feel as though they were the cause of their assault. The effects of rape culture in America can cause men, women and even children to live a life of fear and pain because they were told that what happened to them was their fault. Rape culture is very prevalent on college campuses all across America in fact, it is “found that 1 in 4 college women [say] they [have] been sexually assaulted” (Dokterman). Due to the high amount of rapes on college one would expect a change to be made but, sadly many victims are simply told to get over it and their assaulter to allowed to walk free. This can cause the victim to feel unsafe on their campus and start being criticized by their peers. Rape culture does nothing to protect the victim but everything to protect attacker and that can have a lifelong effect on the person