the United States‚ rape has become one of the most underreported crimes each year (“Reporting Rape” 1). The term rape culture refers to how our society has taught women how not to be raped instead of teaching men not to rape. Through jokes and the sexualization of women we are more likely to believe rape is not a big crisis in our nation. Rape culture leads to the acceptance of rape as a natural occurrence through images that objectify women‚ media‚ and the stigmatization of rape victims. In our culture
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The Effect of Rape on Victims and How to Help Them Introduction During recent years‚ the cases of rape are widely occurring in Malaysia. The statistic shows that the rape cases are increasing year by year since 2006 until 2009 (Berita Harian‚ 2nd June 2009‚ Tuesday). The legal definition of rape in when a man commits rape if he has unlawful sexual intercourse with a women without her consent by fear‚ force or fraud (Sexual Offenses Act‚ 1956) and at the time he knows she does not consent s to
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Psychological Effects of Rape A victim often suffers intense emotional and psychological reactions immediately after a rape. These can be described as personal crises where the victim relives the fear‚ agony or anxiety‚ mixed with emotional feelings. For most rape victims‚ the reactions begin days or weeks after the rape and will sometimes decrease after two to six months. However‚ disturbing emotions combined with low self-respect and sexual dysfunction may last for a year or more for some
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What More Can We Do To Stop Rape? There is a lot more all of us can do to help disengage our rape culture beyond not raping someone else. Since again‚ most men won’t rape‚ these “extras” are the things most of us need to work on. This article is not meant exclusively for men; women too should read it and help propagate it. For instance‚ people will often report that they know or have known that someone else — even people very close to them — are or have been raping or abusing another and
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"Rape Fantasies" is written by Margaret Atwood in 1977. Basically this short story is about the narrator‚ named Estelle‚ recalling a conversation of several women during their lunch hour. It starts with one of Estelle’s co-workers‚ asking the question "How about it‚ girls‚ do you have rape fantasies?"(pg 72) The story goes on with each woman telling their supposed "rape fantasy" to one another. As each is telling their fantasy‚ Estelle is doing her best to try to deflect the situation by making
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Walker Intro to Women’s Studies Dr. David Magill March 11th 2013 The Misconceptions and Realities of Rape Why do people rape and what do rapists earn from committing this crime? Is it the pleasure of seeing someone in fear‚ or pain‚ or is it the pleasure of their screams? I will never know the answer to these questions. All I know is that rape is beyond immoral and depraved‚ and is a serious crime. Rape is a very strong word and often makes people feel really uncomfortable talking about it‚ especially
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It was not until Cooper read the journal for the first time that she realized her daughter had been date raped prior to her suicide. Since then‚ Cooper has traveled around the country to speak to campuses and conferences about the aftermath of rape and to try to convince victims to come forward. She visited 45 colleges‚ four conferences and more than 24‚000 people in 2004 alone. Twenty of those visits‚ including this one to Clemson‚ were made possible with grants through Alpha Chi Omega and Cooper’s
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Written in 1977‚ "Rape Fantasies" appears to be a recap of a conversation among several women during their lunch hour‚ a few of them playing bridge‚ one--Chrissy the receptionist--reading aloud from a tabloid. When Chrissy asks the question‚ "How about it‚ girls‚ do you have rape fantasies?" the story unfolds with each woman’s response‚ all retold from the perspective of Estelle‚ who’s doing her best to deflect the entire conversation by concentrating on her bidding. The conversation is tragically
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When dealing with rape trial cases‚ lawyers utilize linguistic methods and antiquated rape laws to control their cross-examination and frame their desired version of the case to their benefit. Rape trials are viewed more leniently and victim blaming is present when these circumstances revolve around an acquaintance rather than a stranger. An analysis was focused on the Kennedy Smith rape trial‚ where the role of the defense lawyer’s ‘controlling’ act was examined. It was noted that syntactic repetition
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Rape Thesis statement- Rapist around the world for the crimes getting just jail time is not enough‚ and for that reason governments around the world should take action to show what will happen if you rape somebody. Statistics of rape are very high in this stage of the world 44% of the victims in America are under the age of 18 and 80% are still just under 30(article 1). The world for women and also for men is not safe. In the U.S alone‚ one person gets raped every two minutes (article 1). Most
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