In today’s lecture, we talked about the article “A response to rape
by the swimming athlete from Stanford.” We were analyzing what happened in this
case. To me this case is again about blaming the sex culture and drinking
culture for what the rapist did. This actually reminds me of an article I saw
on Facebook, which is about a man defending man’s modesty and dominant nature. Check
out this link, http://hannahschaefer.com/2015/02/08/not-a-dick-a-mans-perspective-on-modesty/
He said not all man is stereotypically lack
of self-control because men are human too and not all guys treating woman as
sexual objects. He also said neither men nor women deserve to be objectified
into sexual beings. I think it’s interesting he said this and I can tie what he
said to the issue of sexual assault and sex culture. I think the reason so many
people blame sex culture for sexual assault is because they are used to having
sex culture around, they would rather blame their culture (which is a common
thing) than making the rape incident personal on individual (the rapist).
People are also more endurable with the sex culture; they make fun of it all the
time like having sex jokes, this is why they are used to the fact sex culture
affecting the issue of rape, it doesn’t make them feel threatened, rather it
happens so often because it’s part of their culture. The guy in this article
too believes that there is nothing wrong with man’s behavior because he is
deeply rooted with in male dominated culture. He is justifying man’s modesty
and saying not all man have treated woman inhumanly, but the truth is rape
happens all the time even when a man not intentionally treating a woman as
sexual object.
In
class, students said in the case of rape, the longer it take for not reporting,
the less evidence left. So if the victims could immediately report the case
they may have a chance to collect all the evidence they need and catch the
rapist and put him in conviction. But personally I think it’s hard for female
victims to report as soon as the rape is happened because, as students said in
class, not everybody is open up with the topic of rape; victims could be
shameful or self-blaming. They know the press, the media or the police are
going to be harsh on them about the case, thus they took longer to think
through and report the case, which left less evidence for investigation. As
students suggested, people could establish a victim support group which has
police members but they are well trained to deal with victims of sexual assault
and provide a warm and welcoming situation, rather than a cold police office. I
think this idea is not really possible because training and establishing the
group both needs money and support of the police. I know that police treat rape
as less important than murder because it’s not life threatening. As long as the
local police are care less about rape cases they will not put in time and
effort to train people to be like ATVP to help the victim out, because police’s
job is mainly investigation not consoling. The instructor also said in class,
if the police are well trained, they are able to catch the rapist beforehand,
it minimize the victimization. But it seems unrealistic to expect police to
catch the guy before he commit sexual assault, because nobody would know if the
guy has never done any sexual assault before. To solve the issue of sexual
assault, people need to keep up their awareness with the news and their
community, and pay attention to their environment if cases like rape really
happens.
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