It Is Not A Game

Young women wear their clothes too tight, too short, or little clothes at all. They tease men with their body and the innocent act they put up. It is a woman’s fault that a man acts the way they do. It is their fault that men rape. The men that rape those women are strangers.

                

We’ve all heard all these accusations about rape before. If women didn’t do this, didn’t act like that, or even said no, men would think twice before deciding to rape them.  In reality, most women who have been raped has been done by someone they know. It is not the women’s fault that men lose their sense of humanity and let an animal loose to prey and hunt these women.

Society has placed the responsibility on women to get educated about how to not get raped. They have placed this burden on women that if they get raped it is very well likely that they did not handle the situation correctly. Men have is easy; but why is that? Women SHOULD be educated on rape, whether it is how to avoid these sticky situations, how to fight, or how to cope. As it is important for women to learn these things it is also needed of men to be educated on how not to rape. Ann Bartow posted a blog, “Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work”, in the Feminist Law Professors on September 16, 2009. In the blog there are tips listed on how to prevent sexual assaults, starting with not to put drugs in someone’s drink to carrying a whistle to give to the person you are with. Even though these tips may be written in a sarcastic way it sure does get the point around. Not only do women have to be careful but men also have to watch what they are doing and should be listening to what the woman says and vice versa. When a person says no, it means NO.

http://feministlawprofessors.com/?p=12965

                Men tend to forget what the word no means and take it as foreplay. A woman wants it they just don’t want to seem pushy, they think. In a television series titled A Different World, in season two-episode twenty “No Means No”, a character named Garth had stated, “They want do it but they just don’t want to give it up. It is our job to let them off the hook, to let them think it wasn’t their idea.” Garth is telling one of his teammates that woman put up a defense wall to try act innocent. Even if she is saying no and putting up a fight, ignore it and carry on with your business. Garth proceeds to tell his teammate, “If you want it, you got to go for it.” Men assume that women say no to use a word in their vocabulary, many forget what that word really means. Society tells women that saying no is enough to save them from rape when it really is not. It is all a game until someone gets hurt or gets thrown in jail.

A Different World - S2E20

Women need to get educated but so do men. This is a two way street, not a game of the predator and prey. 

Everyone Is Different

We’ve learned a lot throughout the semester about different ethnic backgrounds, social structures, cultures and more. I think the section that stood out to me the most and I really took into consideration and did a reality check was chapter 8 about sex. This chapter forced me to think about all the different types of people I know and their different orientations s or lifestyles. I feel as if everyone is entitled to there own sexual preference and should be able to do whatever makes him or her happy. I remember on the test we were asked the question about what the different orientations were. The different types were heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual. It’s funny because sometimes you never know what type of person you are commuting with. You can be at Chase Bank and the teller could be asexual. This is why you shouldn’t prejudge people or treat them different because of their personal lifestyle choices. 

http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm

Everyone deserves equal work rights. This is why people take it so serious about how they are being treated in the work place. They want to be treated the same as the next heterosexual person or homosexual person. No one should be treated differently because of their orientation and this is becoming a topic in the United States because so many people are not being treated fairly.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/

There are many different types of discrimination and you shouldn’t be discriminated on because of the way you look or act. This is unfair and not a good thing to do unto people. Everyone has a different upbringing and culture, which is why we should not prejudge or discriminate against people, but get to know him or her for him or her even though they are different.